All 13 Uses of
passage
in
1984 by Orwell
- He took out of the drawer a copy of a children's history textbook which he had borrowed from Mrs Parsons, and began copying a passage into the diary: In the old days (it ran), before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today.
p. 72..5 (definition 1) *passage = a short part of a longer written work
- Suddenly the passage from the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston's mind,
p. 87..1 (definition 1)passage = short part of a longer written work
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Winston followed her down the passage.†
p. 20..8 (definition 2) *
- But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck an agonizingly painful blow.†
p. 24..0 (definition 2)
- From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee — real coffee, not Victory Coffee — came floating out into the street.†
p. 81..6 (definition 2)
- He lit another lamp, and, with bowed back, led the way slowly up the steep and worn stairs and along a tiny passage, into a room which did not give on the street but looked out on a cobbled yard and a forest of chimney-pots.†
p. 96..3 (definition 2)
- The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.†
p. 141..1 (definition 2)
- The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean.†
p. 168..4 (definition 2)
- There ws another, lighter step in the passage.†
p. 224..3 (definition 2)
- Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet.†
p. 255..5 (definition 2)
- It would have been possible now to keep count of the passage of time, if he had felt any interest in doing so, since he was being fed at what appeared to be regular intervals.†
p. 274..9 (definition 2)
- He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.†
p. 279..9 (definition 2)
- There was a heavy tramp of boots in the passage.†
p. 282..0 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...) a short part of a longer written workeditor's notes: This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.