Noun

(en noun)

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

* , chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}

A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

(obsolete) income; revenue

* Gower

[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.

* (Alexander Pope)

So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.

Noun

(en noun)

A tear or rip in some surface.

* 1913 ,

The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .

A division or schism.

Noun

(en noun)

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

passage of scripture

She struggled to play the difficult passages .

Part of a path or journey.

He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.

(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

A passageway or corridor.

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

(euphemistic) The vagina.

* 1986 , Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time , New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:

With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust,

* 1987 , Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking , Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53:

This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage .

* 2009 , Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor , Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249:

At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.

The act of passing

* 1886 , Pacific medical journal Volume 29

He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.

Noun

(en noun)

(dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.