ən 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.
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passenger (ˈpæsɪndʒə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a person travelling in a car, train, boat, etc, not driven by him |
| b. (as modifier): a passenger seat | |
| 2. | chiefly (Brit) a member of a group or team who is a burden on the others through not participating fully in the work |
| [C14: from Old French passager passing, from | |
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Passenger
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
passenger
early 14c., passager "passer-by," from O.Fr. passageor "traveler," noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage). The -n- was added early 15c. (cf. messenger, harbinger, scavenger). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel"
first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of N.Amer. so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.
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