Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Dictionary
    passenger
    /ˈpas(ɪ)n(d)ʒə/

    noun

    • 1. a traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew: "more than 50 passengers escaped injury when a train was derailed" Similar travellercommutervoyagerrider

    More definitions, origin and scrabble points

  2. a person who is travelling in a vehicle but is not driving it, flying it, or working on it: airline / rail / train / car passengers. passenger train. a train carrying people rather than goods: Two passenger trains were involved in the accident. See more. Fewer examples.

  3. 1. : wayfarer. 2. : a traveler in a public or private conveyance. Examples of passenger in a Sentence. There were two passengers in the car in addition to the driver. There's no room for passengers on this project; everybody must do his share of the work.

  4. Passenger definition: a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.. See examples of PASSENGER used in a sentence.

  5. A passenger in a bus, boat, or plane is a person who is travelling in it, but who is not driving it or working on it.

  6. A passenger is a person who rides in a vehicle. If you grab a ride home from school with your best friend, you are a passenger in her car. Everyone riding in a train, plane, bus, or any other vehicle is a passenger — except the driver, pilot, or crew. A passenger's only job is to ride along.

  7. 1. A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation. 2. Informal A person who participates only passively in an activity. 3. Archaic A wayfarer or traveler. [Middle English passinger, alteration of passager, from Old French passageor, from passager, passing, from passage, passage; see passage 1 .]

  8. someone who is travelling in a vehicle, but not controlling the vehicle: a front-seat passenger. a passenger seat / train. (Definition of passenger from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

  9. noun. /ˈpæsɪndʒə (r)/ /ˈpæsɪndʒər/ a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train, plane or ship and who is not driving it or working on it. airline/cruise/rail/bus passengers. I soon got talking to a fellow passenger on the flight. The boat was carrying more than 100 passengers. a passenger train (= carrying passengers, not goods) Extra Examples.

  10. passenger meaning, definition, what is passenger: someone who is travelling in a vehicle, ...: Learn more.

  11. Jun 15, 2024 · One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew . ( 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.