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pas⋅sen⋅ger

  [pas-uhn-jer]
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–noun
1. a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, esp. one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.
2. a wayfarer; traveler.
Origin:
1300–50; ME passager < MF, n. use of passag(i)er (adj.) passing, temporary; see passage, -ier 2 ; for -n- cf. messenger, harbinger, scavenger, popinjay
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pas·sen·ger   (pās'ən-jər)   
n.  
  1. A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation.
  2. Informal A person who participates only passively in an activity.
  3. A wayfarer or traveler.

[Middle English passinger, alteration of passager, from Old French passageor, from passager, passing, from passage, passage; see passage1.]
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Passenger

Pas"sen*ger\, n. [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger.]

1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. --Shak.

2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.

Passenger falcon (Zo["o]l.), a migratory hawk. --Ainsworth.

Passenger pigeon (Zo["o]l.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.
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Language Translation for : passenger
Spanish: pasajero,
German: der Passagier; Passagier-…,
Japanese: 乗客
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passenger 
c.1330, passager "passer-by," from O.Fr. passageor "traveler," noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage). The -n- was added c.1420 (cf. messenger, harbinger, scavenger). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1511. Passenger-pigeon of N.Amer. so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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