passenger

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pas=sen=ger

CIDE DICTIONARY

passenger, n. [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger.].

•  A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

passenger, n.
1 a traveller in or on a public or private conveyance (other than the driver, pilot, crew, etc.).
2 colloq. a member of a team, crew, etc., who does no effective work.
3 (attrib.) for the use of passengers (passenger seat).

Idiom

passenger-mile one mile travelled by one passenger, as a unit of traffic. passenger-pigeon an extinct wild pigeon of N. America, capable of long flight.

Etymology

ME f. OF passager f. OF passager (adj.) passing (as passage(1)): -n- as in messenger etc.

THESAURUS

passenger

adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, traveller, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

ROGET THESAURUS

passenger

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.