(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a long narrow space with walls or fences on both sides, which connects one place or room with another.
Harry stepped into the ~ and closed the door behind him.
= ~way, corridor
N-COUNT
2.
A ~ in a book, speech, or piece of music is a section of it that you are considering separately from the rest.
He reads a ~ from Milton.
...the ~ in which Blake spoke of the world of imagination...
= excerpt, extract
N-COUNT: usu with supp
3.
A ~ is a long narrow hole or tube in your body, which air or liquid can pass along.
...blocked nasal ~s.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
4.
A ~ through a crowd of people or things is an empty space that allows you to move through them.
He cleared a ~ for himself through the crammed streets...
= way
N-COUNT: oft N through n
5.
The ~ of someone or something is their movement from one place to another.
Germany had not requested Franco’s consent for the ~ of troops through Spain...
N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss
6.
The ~ of someone or something is their progress from one situation or one stage in their development to another.
...the ~ from school to college.
= transition
N-UNCOUNT: usu N from/to n, oft with poss
7.
The ~ of a period of time is its passing.
An asset that increases in value with the ~ of time.
= passing
N-SING: the N of n
8.
A ~ is a journey by ship.
We’d arrived the day before after a 10-hour ~ from Swansea.
= crossing
N-COUNT
9.
If you are granted ~ through a country or area of land, you are given permission to go through it.
Mr Thomas would be given safe ~ to and from Jaffna...
N-UNCOUNT: oft N prep