passenger

English Online Dictionary. What means passenger‎? What does passenger mean?

English

Etymology

From Old French passagier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒɚ/, /ˈpæsənd͡ʒɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒə/, /ˈpæsənd͡ʒə/
• Hyphenation: pas‧sen‧ger

Noun

passenger (plural passengers)

1. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
2. (informal, chiefly UK) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
3. (falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
4. (obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
5. (obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
   • Quoted in 1905, William Carew Hazlitt, Faiths and Folklore (volume 2, page 595)

     [The boys] have taken possession of the turnpike road to play the before-mentioned games, to the serious inconvenience of the passengers, one of whom, a woman, was yesterday knocked down by a nurr which struck her in the head.

6. (obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
7. A moth, Dysgonia algira
8. (military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.

Synonyms

• (person borne by a vehicle): inmate (uncommon)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

passenger (third-person singular simple present passengers, present participle passengering, simple past and past participle passengered)

1. (intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

See also

Anagrams

• sap greens