(anthropology) A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a transition in a person’s life. Baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals are among the best known examples.

The passage between two terraced houses leading between the front and back gardens or yards. / (euphemistic) anus, rectum

The passing of the sun directly overhead such that no shadows are cast by a pole sticking straight up from the ground. These conditions only occur in locations between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

The elapsing of time.

(geography, nautical) The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.

Alternative spelling of passagemaker

(obsolete) A middle way, especially between two extremes; an intermediate path in space or time.

plural of rite of passage

a group of islands in the Virgin Islands chain, to the west of the Virgin Islands archipelago and east of Puerto Rico; separated from the Virgin Islands archipelago by the Virgin Passage channel.

(ornithology) A bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration.