Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A way allowing passage, especially a corridor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A passage; a road, avenue, path, or way affording means of communication; avenue of entrance or exit; street, alley, gallery, or corridor.
- noun A hall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A way for passage; a hall. See
passage , 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A covered
walkway , between rooms orbuildings . - noun Any way for passing in, out or through something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a passage between rooms or between buildings
- noun a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why Not? how about we move the monorail stop to this plaza, instead of that ugly dying mall, and construct an underground passageway from the tunnel to this plaza?
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Sometimes the open passageway is wide (a large PDA) and sometimes it is narrow (a small PDA).
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The advertised purpose of this expansion is to create a new multi-modal passageway from the airport to the burgeoning population center right there on Rt. 29.
Waldo Jaquith - Bad urban planning: Curved intersections. 2006
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Rather, in coming to the place where such a passageway is needed and missing, we find ourselves in
Seeing Is Reading 2005
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A secret passageway is rumoured to have existed at the time, used perhaps by bandits listening for the latest news of the gold-laden pack trains which passed along the main road ...
A day in Jocotepec 2004
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On the first floor, the houses were separate, which made room for a skinny passageway from the front yard to the back yard.
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A secret passageway is rumoured to have existed at the time, used perhaps by bandits listening for the latest news of the gold-laden pack trains which passed along the main road ...
A day in Jocotepec 2004
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On the first floor, the houses were separate, which made room for a skinny passageway from the front yard to the back yard.
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Past the rooming house, at the end of the passageway, is the front (pedestrian) entrance to the compound.
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Past the rooming house, at the end of the passageway, is the front (pedestrian) entrance to the compound.
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