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ˈpæs ən dʒərpas·sen·ger

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. passenger, ridernoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. passengernoun

    One who rides or travels in a train, motor vehicle, boat, ship, ferry, hovercraft, aircraft, etc., but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.

  2. passengernoun

    A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.

  3. passengerverb

    To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Passengernoun

    Etymology: passager, French.

    All the way, the wanton damsel found
    New mirth, her passenger to entertain. Fairy Queen.

    What hollowing, and what stir is this?
    These are my mates that make their wills their law,
    Have some unhappy passenger in chase. William Shakespeare.

    The nodding horror of whose shady brows
    Threats the forlorn and wand’ring passenger. John Milton.

    Apelles, when he had finished any work, exposed it to the sight of all passengers, and concealed himself to hear the censure of his faults. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passenger. Philip Sidney.

Wikipedia

  1. Passenger

    A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The vehicles may be bicycles, buses, passenger trains, airliners, ships, ferryboats, and other methods of transportation. Crew members (if any), as well as the driver or pilot of the vehicle, are usually not considered to be passengers. For example, a flight attendant on an airline would not be considered a passenger while on duty and the same with those working in the kitchen or restaurant on board a ship as well as cleaning staff, but an employee riding in a company car being driven by another person would be considered a passenger, even if the car was being driven on company business.

ChatGPT

  1. passenger

    A passenger is an individual who travels in a vehicle, aircraft, train, or ship, operated by another person or an automated system, without taking an active role in its operation or navigation. This person is sometimes referred to as a rider, especially in public transportation. They have their travel typically authorized by the vehicle's operator or the operator's employer and they are usually protected by safety regulations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Passengernoun

    a passer or passer-by; a wayfarer

  2. Passengernoun

    a traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc

  3. Etymology: [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger.]

Wikidata

  1. Passenger

    A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle. Passengers are people who ride on buses, passenger trains, airliners, ships, ferryboats, and other methods of transportation. Crew members, as well as the driver or pilot of the vehicle, are usually not considered to be passengers. For example, a flight attendant on an airline would not be considered a "passenger" while on duty, but an employee riding in a company car being driven by another person would be considered a passenger, even if the car was being driven on company business.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Passenger

    pas′en-jėr, n. one who passes: one who travels in some public conveyance.—Passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon, a native of North America, having a small head and short bill, a very long, wedge-shaped tail, and long and pointed wings; Passenger train, a railway-train for the conveyance of passengers. [O. Fr. passagier (Fr. passager), with inserted n, as in messenger, nightingale.]

CrunchBase

  1. Passenger

    Passenger communities enable the world’s leading brands to connect, create and communicate with key stakeholders online, on mobile and on social networks. Passenger’s technology, combined with expert community management and member engagement services, allows your brand to leverage your community to inform research, product development, and marketing decisions at social speed. In addition, all of the data collected from across the social brand intelligence platform is warehoused in a single database with robust analytic capabilities, providing a holistic view of your social brand community and actionable, member-driven insights. For more information, visit www.thinkpassenger.com. Think Passenger, Inc. was founded in 2005 with locations in Los Angeles and New York City.

Editors Contribution

  1. passenger

    A person who uses a form of transport.

    The passenger numbers were excellent for a regional airport.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'passenger' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4538

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'passenger' in Nouns Frequency: #1005

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of passenger in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of passenger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of passenger in a Sentence

  1. Tony Kim:

    I waited until the last passenger. I waited until the train doors closed, but I couldn't find him.

  2. Actor Liam Hemsworth:

    6. The smelly kid Some parents feel the need to use the entire plane as a diaper. Gross, but true : A child reportedly pooping on a plane seat on a Delta flight last year( the parents covered the seat with newspapers — how thoughtful). And it’s not unusual for babies to drop a( stink) bomb or two during the flight. ( If this emotional support pig can get kicked off a plane for crapping in the aisle, should little humans, too ?) 7. The chatty kid Chatty Cathy is generally one of the most annoying passengers on a flight but what if Cathy is six years old ? While adorable and curious, she’s probably the last person you want conversation with, because of course she continues to ask the same question in different ways. Or maybe she’s having a loud conversation with her doll. In fact, several years ago, a kid actually got kicked off a plane for being too chatty. According to the Associated Press, Kate Penland’s then 19-month-old son, Garren, started saying ‘ Bye, bye plane, ’ before takeoff — and would n’t stop. When the other passengers started complaining, Kate Penland got mad and eventually Kate Penland and Kate Penland son were asked to leave. That seems a little extreme. Maybe just give the kid a pack of pretzels( peanuts are too risky) and offer him a window seat. 8. The ultimate nightmare kid It’s fair to say no one wants to sit next to a kid who kicks your seat, complains, talks up a storm and manages to poop themselves all on one flight. But as they say in airline business, the sky’s the limit. Passengers who survive the ultimate nightmare child passenger deserve a medal. Actor Liam Hemsworth recently admitted on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that Actor Liam Hemsworth own three kids were those kids on a recent flight from London to Australia( a 30-hour trip). The Ellen DeGeneres Show was kind of like the trip from hell, they were all sick and literally took turns to scream. One would kinda do it and then look over and be like, ‘ I ’m done, you want a turn ? ’ ' Yep, Wahhhh ! ’ The whole cabin, yeah, wanted to kick us off … I don’t know what people expect though — you’re gon na put them in the suitcase or something ?

  3. The IAC:

    Over 95 percent of all foreign aircraft operated in Russia and accounting for over 85 percent of all passenger flights, including Aeroflot, are registered and are in the registers of foreign countries.

  4. Jim Szczesniak:

    In the wintertime, we have the ability and the luxury of not having any passenger traffic over there, so its a perfect area for us to handle this kind of flight.

  5. An Uber passenger:

    An Uber passenger just kind of kept looking at me like,' Don't you want to get to your friend's house ?' and I'm like,' I want to get there alive,'.

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