6. hall, corridor, alleyway, alley. See passageway.
7. opening, aperture, hole, orifice; vent, porthole, mouth, spiracle, blowhole; eyelet, eye of a needle, pore; entrance, entry, entree, access, approach; inlet, ingress, intake, way in, Inf. in; exit, outlet, egress, way out, Inf. out, gangplank.
8. voyage, trip, journey; crossing, cruise, sail, steam, run.
9. lapse, passing, expiration; flow, course, current, stream; drift, career, sweep, flux, tide, flight; progress, progression, march, step, advance; continuity, continuance, extension; period, space, stage, spell, duration.
10. enactment, ratification, legislation, establishment, constitutionalization; legalization, validation, legitimation; sanction, approval, approbation, acceptance, adoption, endorsement; ordainment, fixing, prescription.
11. interchange, exchange, give and take, intercourse, interplay, reciprocity; transaction, trading, traffic, trafficking, commerce; correspondence, communication, connection, liaison, union, congress; discussion, negotiation, interlocution, dialogue, colloquy, SI. rapping.
12. transmission, transfer, transmittal, transference, Pathol, metastasis; transposition, transposal, transplantation, translocation, metathesis. passageway, n. hall, corridor, hallway, gallery; arcade, gangway, ambulatory, mall; alleyway, aisle, passage, areaway, breezeway; portico, colonnade, covered way, cloister, pergola, loggia, peristyle; portal, port, entrance, exit, entryway, doorway, threshold, sill; sidewalk, walk, walkway, garden path; stairwell, stairs, steps, Naut. companionway. passl, adj. 1. out-of-date, outmoded, antiquated, outworn; obsolete, obsolescent, dated, on the way out, past its prime, out of style; superseded, out of use, disused, fallen into disuse, shelved, on the shelf, stale, gone to seed, discarded; rejected, discredited, forgotten; bygone, past, Archaic, olden; old-fashioned, old hat, old-time, old-fogyish; unmodern, of the old school, old-world, horse-and-buggy.
2. aged, ancient, old, elderly, archaic, fossil, antique; old as the hills, over the hill, timeworn, moss-grown; venerable, gray, hoary, patriarchal, retired. passel, n. group, collection, bunch, some, lot, a lot; quantity, heap, mass, mess; array, assortment, spectrum; assemblage, agglomeration, conglomeration; multitude, host, company; party, body, congregation; gathering, crowd, drove, herd, gaggle, swarm. passenger, n. 1. rider, fare; equestrian, horseman; train patron, airplane passenger; sailor, boatman; hitch-hiker.
2. wayfarer, journeyer, voyager, trekker; tourist, sightseer, commuter, cruiser, traveler, globetrotter, jet-setter, Inf. bird of passage, world traveler; walker, hiker, wanderer, explorer, roamer, rover; peregrina-tor, itinerant, nomad, drifter, Inf. bum, vagabond. passer-by, n. bystander, witness, spectator, passer; pedestrian, passing motorist, onlooker, watcher; dispassionate person, uninvolved bystander; good Samaritan. passing, adj. 1. elapsing, lapsing, expiring, departing, dying; dwindling, disappearing, fading, evaporating, fading away; slipping away, flitting, streaming, gliding by, going by, running its course, becoming a thing of the past, running out; proceeding, progressing, ongoing, mobile; sliding, slipping, Inf slipsliding away.