pas·sen·ger

(păs′ən-jər)

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. Archaic 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

(ˈpæsɪndʒə)

a. a person travelling in a car, train, boat, etc, not driven by him or her

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 passage¹]

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pas•sen•ger

(ˈpæs ən dʒər)

n.

1. a person traveling in a car, train, airplane, or other conveyance, esp. one who is not the operator.

2. a wayfarer.

[1300–50; Middle English passager < Middle French, n. use of passag(i)er (adj.) passing, temporary; see passage, -ier²; for -n- compare messenger]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

passenger - a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

rider

aeroplane, airplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

boat - a small vessel for travel on water

autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, passenger vehicle, omnibus, coach - a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work"

auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"

railroad train, train - public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction"

traveler, traveller - a person who changes location

commuter - someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city

fare - a paying (taxi) passenger

hitchhiker - a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles

stowaway - a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage

straphanger - a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support

passenger

noun traveller, rider, fare, commuter, hitchhiker, pillion rider, fare payer a flight from Milan with more than forty passengers aboard the pillion passenger on a motorbike

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Translations

رَاكِبٌراكِب، مُسافِر

cestujícíosobní

passager

Passagier Passagierin Insasse

επιβάτης επιβατικός επιβατηγός

pasajero viajero

sõitja

matkustaja

passager

putnikputnica

utas

faròegi

passeggero viaggiatore

乗客

승객

keleivinis

pasažierispasažieru-

potnik

passagerare

abiria

ผู้โดยสาร

yolcu

hành khách

乘客旅客

passenger

[ˈpæsndʒəʳ]

A. N

1. → pasajero/a m/f
see also fellow B
see also foot C

2. (pej) → parásito m
I felt like a passenger → me sentía como un parásito
there's no room for passengers in this company → en esta empresa no hay lugar para los gandules

B. CPD [jet, ship, train] → de pasajeros
passenger door N (Aut) → puerta f del pasajero
passenger list N → lista f de pasajeros
passenger miles NPL → millas-pasajero fpl
passenger seat N (Aut) → asiento m del pasajero

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passenger

[ˈpæsɪndʒə^r]

(in plane, train, bus, car) → passager/ère m/f

modif [aircraft, jet] → de ligne; [train] → de passagers; [numbers] → de passagers; [safety] → des passagers passenger traffic, passenger ferry, passenger side, passenger door, passenger enquiries, passenger list, passenger seatpassenger door n [car] → portière f avant côté passagerpassenger enquiries npl → renseignements mplpassenger ferry n → ferry mpassenger list n → liste f des passagerspassenger seat n [car] (in front) → siège m du passager; (in back) → siège m arrièrepassenger ship n → paquebot mpassenger side n [car] → côté m passager
on the passenger side → du côté passagerpassenger traffic n → trafic m passagerspasser-by [ˌpɑːsə^rˈbaɪ] n → passant(e) m/f

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passenger

(on bus, in taxi) → Fahrgast m; (on train) → Reisende(r) mf; (on ship) → Passagier(in) m(f); (on plane) → Fluggast m, → Passagier(in) m(f); (in car) → Mitfahrer(in) m(f), → Beifahrer(in) m(f); (on motorcycle) → Beifahrer(in) m(f)

(inf) we can’t afford to carry any passengers (= incompetent people) → wir können es uns nicht leisten, Leute mit durchzuschleppen; (= idle people) → wir können uns keine Drückeberger leisten; he’s just a passenger in the team → er wird von den anderen mit durchgeschleppt

passenger

passenger aircraft

n → Passagierflugzeug nt

passenger door

n (in car) → Beifahrertür f

passenger ferry

n → Personenfähre f

passenger jet

n → Passagierflugzeug nt

passenger liner

n → Passagierschiff nt

passenger list

n → Passagierliste f

passenger mile

n (Aviat) → Flugkilometer m → je Fluggast; (Rail) → Bahnkilometer m → je Reisender

passenger seat

n (in car) → Beifahrersitz m

passenger ship

n → Passagierschiff nt

passenger train

n → Zug m → im Personenverkehr

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passenger

[ˈpæs/ɛ7ndʒəʳ]

1. n (in boat, plane, car) → passeggero/a; (on train) → viaggiatore/trice, passeggero/a

2. adj (aircraft, liner) → di linea, passeggeri inv; (train) → viaggiatori inv

passenger

(ˈpӕsindʒə) noun

a person who travels in any vehicle, boat, aeroplane etc (not the driver or anyone working there). a passenger on a train; (also adjective) a passenger train.

passenger

→ رَاكِبٌ cestující passager Passagier επιβάτης pasajero matkustaja passager putnik passeggero 乗客 승객 passagier passasjer pasażer passageiro пассажир passagerare ผู้โดยสาร yolcu hành khách 乘客

passenger

n pasajero -ra mf

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Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind.

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"I am a saloon passenger on board your ship, although my name does not appear in the list.

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The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger. Choice of rooms and of seats at the tables apportioned in the order in which passages are engaged; and no passage considered engaged until ten percent of the passage money is deposited with the treasurer.

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Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?

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Larry Donovan was a passenger conductor, one of those train-crew aristocrats who are always afraid that someone may ask them to put up a car-window, and who, if requested to perform such a menial service, silently point to the button that calls the porter.

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Barbicane, with arms crossed, looked fixedly at the passenger of the Atlanta.

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This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.

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Crisparkle could hardly see anything else of it for a large outside passenger seated on the box, with his elbows squared, and his hands on his knees, compressing the driver into a most uncomfortably small compass, and glowering about him with a strongly-marked face.

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With some difficulty, I got a fellow passenger to tell me what they meant.

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These cars were not tilted back, but the seats were; this enables the passenger to sit level while going down a steep incline.

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Having finished my business, and feeling the lassitude and exhaustion incident to its dispatch, I felt that a protracted sea voyage would be both agreeable and beneficial, so instead of embarking for my return on one of the many fine passenger steamers I booked for New York on the sailing vessel Morrow, upon which I had shipped a large and valuable invoice of the goods I had bought.

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There is another passenger very much wrapped-up, who has been frowned down by the rest, and morally trampled upon and crushed, for presuming to inquire with a timid interest how long it is since the poor President went down.

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