Usually means: Achieving success in a test.
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  1. passing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. passing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. passing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Passing, passing: Wordnik
  7. passing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. passing: Wiktionary
  9. passing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. passing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. passing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Passing, passing: Dictionary.com
  13. passing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Passing (American football), Passing (association football), Passing (disambiguation), Passing (film), Passing (gender), Passing (juggling), Passing (novel), Passing (race), Passing (racial identity), Passing (sociology), Passing (sports), Passing, The Passing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Passing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. passing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. passing: Rhymezone
  18. Passing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. passing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. passing: Free Dictionary
  21. passing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. passing: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. passing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. passing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PASSING: Acronym Finder
  2. passing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Passing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Passing: Sports Definitions

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  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That passes away; ephemeral.
adjective:  (now rare, literary) Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
adjective:  Vague, cursory.
adjective:  Going past.
adjective:  That passes in any sense.
adverb:  (literary or archaic) Surpassingly, greatly.
noun:  Death, dying; the end of something.
noun:  The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
noun:  (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
noun:  (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
noun:  A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
noun:  (sociology) The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.

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