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passenger

[ pas-uhn-jer ]

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.


passenger

/ ˈpæsɪndʒə /

noun

    1. a person travelling in a car, train, boat, etc, not driven by him
    2. ( as modifier )

      a passenger seat

  1. a member of a group or team who is a burden on the others through not participating fully in the work
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • non·passen·ger noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of passenger1

1300–50; Middle English passager < Middle French, noun use of passag ( i ) er (adj.) passing, temporary; passage 1, -ier 2; for -n- messenger, harbinger, scavenger, popinjay
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Word History and Origins

Origin of passenger1

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

If a passenger is indicated, they will also be required to take a selfie.

Pyrenean ibexes, dodo birds, passenger pigeons, and Tasmanian tigers are just a few of the many species of animals that humans have over hunted and wiped out.

It’s the same with ships out at sea with passengers who’ve tested positive for the virus.

From Ozy

That is particularly worrying in the case of airliners, in which many passengers are confined in a small space.

From Fortune

In its final form, Starship is expected to be about 400 feet tall and 30 feet wide, able to take more than 100 tons worth of cargo and passengers to deep space destinations like the moon and Mars.

A click sends a user to a statement, a list of passenger nationalities, emergency call-center numbers, and other information.

The Italian navy tweeted regular updates of the saved-to-stranded passenger ratio.

Alexander and Adorno were doing what they could to save the officer on the passenger side, Liu.

Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.

Terrorists against Cuba who had once shot down passenger jets later found safe haven in Miami.

We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.

There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.

Neutral passenger-steamers were allowed to take away refugees other than Spanish subjects.

It possesses, however, one advantage; it warns the foot passenger, and affords him time to get out of the way.

A passenger who stands on a platform or on the steps of a street car, when there is room inside, assumes all the risks himself.

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