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passenger
(pas′ən jər)
noun
- Rare wayfarer
- a person traveling in a train, bus, boat, automobile, etc., esp. one not involved in operating the conveyance
Origin: ME passager < MFr < OFr passage, passage: the n is unhistoric, as in messenger
See passenger in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation.
- Informal A person who participates only passively in an activity.
- A wayfarer or traveler.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English passinger
Origin: , alteration of passager
Origin: , from Old French passageor
Origin: , from passager, passing
Origin: , from passage, passage; see passage1
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