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in passing

in passing prepositional phrase: incidentally; as a brief diversion from another topic etc.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Incidentally; as a brief diversion from another topic etc.
    • We mostly talked about his mother's illness, but he told me in passing that he'd won a small prize in the lottery.
    • Did she mention my name just in passing?1968, “Did She Mention My Name?”, performed by Gordon Lightfoot
    Synonyms:
    en passant

in passing meaning in Malayalam

in passing in Malayalam

incidentally, by the by, by the way
യദൃഛയാ, ആകസ്മികമായി, ആനുഷംഗികമായി സംഗതിവശാൽ, യാദൃച്ഛികമായി, പ്രസംഗവശാൽ, പ്രസംഗേന

Synonyms of in passing

Questions about in passing

What does in passing mean?
In passing means incidentally; as a brief diversion from another topic etc.
What is in passing in Malayalam?
In passing in Malayalam is യദൃഛയാ, ആകസ്മികമായി, ആനുഷംഗികമായി സംഗതിവശാൽ. See In passing meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in passing?
In passing is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in passing in the dictionary

  1. in parallel
  2. in pari materia
  3. in part
  4. in partibus infidelium
  5. in particular
  6. in passing
  7. in peace
  8. in perpetuity
  9. in person
  10. in personam
  11. in perspective

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in passing (page history and authors); in passing (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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