passenger

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  1. noun A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation.
  2. noun Informal A person who participates only passively in an activity.
  3. noun A wayfarer or traveler.

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  • The first two or three times you bump heads with the passenger sitting opposite, you can smile and apologize with some grace, but after a while your hat will not stay in place and your head becomes sensitive, and finally, you discover that the passenger is the most disagreeable person you ever saw, and that the man sitting beside you is inconsiderate and selfish, and really occupying two thirds of the seat. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • The other passenger is a tall fellow in a shapeless blue suit and no tie. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
  • According to anonymous sources close to Hopkins, Richard, Dan, and their passenger were all abducted on that fateful day of November 30, 1989, right along with Linda. —  Omni: April 1994
  • Category Three -- Darcey's personal favorite -- involved how many times in a day he could speed off, just as a passenger was about to catch the shuttle. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 02 - February 2003
  • The cabbie, a keen F1 follower, had picked up a fare at the local railway station and discovered that his passenger was a Brazilian. —  Grandprix.com Current News
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  1. Middle English passinger, alteration of passager, from Old French passageor, from passager, passing, from passage, passage; see passage1.

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  1. Early modern English also passinger, earlier passager (the n being inserted as in messenger, porringer, etc.); from OF.passagier, French passager (Spanish pasajero =Portuguese passageiro =Italian passegiero,passegiere), from passage, passage: see passage.
 

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