passenger

[ pas-uhn-jer ]
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noun
  1. a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.

  2. a wayfarer; traveler.

Origin of passenger

1
1300–50; Middle English passager<Middle French, noun use of passag(i)er (adj.) passing, temporary; see passage1, -ier2; for -n-cf. messenger, harbinger, scavenger, popinjay

Other words from passenger

  • non·pas·sen·ger, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for passenger

passenger

/ (ˈpæsɪndʒə) /


noun
    • a person travelling in a car, train, boat, etc, not driven by him

    • (as modifier): a passenger seat

  1. mainly British a member of a group or team who is a burden on the others through not participating fully in the work

Origin of passenger

1
C14: from Old French passager passing, from passage 1

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