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passenger definition

pas·sen·ger (pas′ən jər)

noun

  1. Rare wayfarer
  2. a person traveling in a train, bus, boat, automobile, etc., esp. one not involved in operating the conveyance

Etymology: ME passager < MFr < OFr passage, passage: the n is unhistoric, as in messenger

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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