passenger

passenger

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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.

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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

  • driver
  • rider

Anagrams

  • sap greens

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