passenger
Meaning
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- One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
- (informal) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
- A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
- (obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
- (obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
- (obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
- A moth, Dysgonia algira
- Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pas‧sen‧ger
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒɚ/
Etymology
From Old French passagier.
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