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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 
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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