passenger

English

Etymology

From Old French passagier.

Pronunciation

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

passenger (plural passengers)

One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
  It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
  A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
(informal, chiefly UK) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
(falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
(obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
  Meander, thou my faithfull Counſellor,
  Declare the cauſe of my conceiued griefe,
  Which is (God knowes) about that Tamburlaine:
  That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,
  Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers: […]
(obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
- c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv], line 15:
  These are my mates, that make their wills their law, / Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
- 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.
(obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
(military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.

Derived terms

foot passenger
non-passenger, nonpassenger
passenger mile

Translations

one who rides or travels in a vehicle

Afrikaans: passasier
Albanian: pasagjer (sq) m
Arabic: مُسَافِر‎ (ar) m (musāfir), سَافِر‎ (ar) m (sāfir), رَاكِب‎ m (rākib)
Armenian: ուղևոր (hy) (ułewor)
Azerbaijani: sərnişin (az), müsafir
Belarusian: пасажы́р m (pasažýr), пасажы́рка f (pasažýrka)
Bengali: মুসাফির (bn) (musafir), রাহী (bn) (rahī)
Bikol Central: lunad (bcl)
Bulgarian: пасаже́р (bg) m (pasažér), пасаже́рка f (pasažérka), пъ́тник (bg) m (pǎ́tnik), пъ́тница f (pǎ́tnica), пъ́тничка f (pǎ́tnička)
Burmese: ခရီးသည် (my) (hka.ri:sany)
Catalan: passatger (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乘客 (zh) (chéngkè), 旅客 (zh) (lǚkè)
Czech: cestující (cs) m
Danish: passager (da) c
Dutch: passagier (nl) m or f
Esperanto: pasaĝero
Estonian: sõitja
Faroese: ferðafólk n
Finnish: matkustaja (fi)
French: passager (fr) m
Galician: pasaxeiro m
Georgian: მგზავრი (mgzavri)
German: Passagier (de) m, Passagierin (de) f, Fahrgast (de) m, Fahrgästin f
Greek: επιβάτης (el) m (epivátis), (idiomatic) αργόμισθος (el) m (argómisthos)
Hebrew: נוֹסֵעַ‎ (he) m (noséa')
Hindi: पैसिंजर (hi) m (paisiñjar), मुसाफ़िर m (musāfir), यात्री (hi) m (yātrī)
Hungarian: utas (hu)
Icelandic: farþegi (is) m
Ido: pasajanto (io), pasajero (io)
Indonesian: penumpang (id)
Italian: passeggero (it) m
Japanese: 乗客 (ja) (じょうきゃく, jōkyaku), 旅客 (ja) (りょかく, ryokaku)
Kazakh: жолаушы (kk) (jolauşy), жолшы (jolşy), жүргінші (jürgınşı)
Khmer: អ្នកដំណើរ (nĕək dɑmnaə)
Korean: 여객(旅客) (ko) (yeogaek), 승객(乘客) (ko) (seunggaek)
Kyrgyz: жүргүнчү (ky) (jürgünçü)
Lao: ຜູ້ໂດຍສານ (lo) (phū dōi sān)
Latin: vector (la) m
Latvian: pasažieris m, pasažiere f
Lithuanian: keleivis m
Luxembourgish: Passagéier m
Macedonian: патник m (patnik), патница f (patnica)
Malay: penumpang
Malayalam: യാത്രക്കാരൻ (ml) m (yātrakkāraṉ)
Maori: pāhihi, tangata eke, kaieke
Mirandese: passageiro m
Mongolian: зорчигч (mn) (zorčigč)
Northern Altai: чолыш (čolïš), чорш (čorš)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: passasjer m
Nynorsk: passasjer m
Persian: مسافر‎ (fa) (mosâfer)
Polish: pasażer (pl) m, pasażerka (pl) f
Portuguese: passageiro (pt) m
Romanian: călător (ro) m, călătoare (ro) f, pasager (ro) m, pasageră (ro) f
Russian: пассажи́р (ru) m (passažír), пассажи́рка (ru) f (passažírka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пу̑тнӣк m, пу̑тница f
Roman: pȗtnīk (sh) m, pȗtnica (sh) f
Slovak: cestujúci m, pasažier m
Slovene: potnik (sl) m, potnica f
Southern Altai: јолучу (ǰoluču), јӱргӱнчӱ (ǰürgünčü)
Spanish: pasajero (es) m
Swahili: abiria (sw)
Swedish: passagerare (sv) c
Tajik: мусофир (tg) (musofir)
Thai: ผู้โดยสาร (th) (pûu-dooi-sǎan)
Tibetan: འགྲུལ་པ ('grul pa)
Turkish: yolcu (tr)
Turkmen: ýolagçy
Ukrainian: пасажи́р m (pasažýr), пасажи́рка f (pasažýrka)
Urdu: مسافر‎ m (musāfir)
Uyghur: پاسساژېر‎ (passazhër), يولۇچى‎ (yoluchi), پاسساژىر‎ (passazhir), يولوچى‎ (yolochi)
Uzbek: passajir (uz), yoʻlovchi (uz)
Vietnamese: hành khách (vi)
Volapük: (♂♀) tävan (vo), (♂) hitävan, (♀) jitävan, (sea, ♂♀) melatävan, (sea, ♂) melahitävan, (sea, ♀) melajitävan, (ship, ♂♀) nafatävan, (ship, ♂) nafahitävan, (ship, ♀) nafajitävan
Zazaki: raywan (diq) c

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

Greek: εκτοπιστής m (ektopistís)

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

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