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noun
- 1. a traveler 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
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PASSENGER definition: 1. a person who is travelling in a vehicle but is not driving it, flying it, or working on it: 2…. Learn more.
: 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.
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.
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.
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. My father was a passenger in the car when it crashed.
PASSENGER meaning: 1. a person who is travelling in a vehicle but is not driving it, flying it, or working on it: 2…. Learn more.
n. 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.
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.
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)
a person travelling in a car, train, boat, etc, not driven by him. (as modifier): a passenger seat. chiefly Brit a member of a group or team who is a burden on the others through not participating fully in the work. Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French passager passing, from passage1.
