Passenger

Definition: Passenger

Passenger

Noun

1. A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "passenger" was first used: 1337. (references)

Etymology: Passenger \Pas"sen*ger\, noun. [from Old English expression French passager. See Passage, and compare to Messenger.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Passenger

Traveler

Pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.

Noun: traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Passenger

Oh wow, I can't believe my first passenger is comedy legend Mel Brooks (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Because you'll release this section of the roof, and engage and then fire the passenger ejector seat (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Jumped in the passenger seat, relaxed my feet (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

Hanging out the passenger side ("No Scrubs"; performing artist: TLC)

The Passenger (1965)

R.C.A.F. Air Movements: Passenger Service (1965)

Passenger to Tokyo (1954)

The Silent Passenger (1935)

Tara Maclean: Passenger (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Passenger Motor Cars for Transport of Passengers and Goods Export Supplies (reference)

• Medium Passenger Vans in Saudi Arabia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Passenger Vehicles in Dominican Republic: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Passenger Motor Cars for Transport of Passangers and Goods in Africa (reference)

• The 2001 Report on New Registrations of Passenger Cars: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships : Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg (reference)

• Louisville and Nashville Passenger Trains: The Pan American Era 1921-1971 (reference)

• Picture History of German and Dutch Passenger Ships (reference)

• The American Passenger Train (reference)

• The New Haven Railroad's Streamline Passenger Fleet: 1934-1953 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Glasss Guide - Passenger Vehicles (reference)

• Manual Of Tariff Coordinating Conference Resolutions Passenger (reference)

• Nicb Passenger Vehicle Identification Manual (reference)

• Passenger Forecast (reference)

• Passenger Pigeon (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Passenger 57 (reference)

• The Passenger (reference)

• Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 9: The Passenger (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Another Passenger (reference)

• Passenger (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A large passenger ship with its Fessenden oscillator in the water ready for use. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Rogue River - Wild section. BLM/FS/Outfitters "Partners Afloat" Trip. Gerry Briggs (front left passenger) and Urv Urie (barsman). Credit: Becky Brown.

Caption: Walter Baker and Passenger in Baker's Runabout Automobile, Testing New Storage Battery; April 2, 1902; {06.111/29} (jpg).

Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), circa 1925-1932. A passenger steamship is passing by at left. Credit: NAVY.

Plan view forward, from the bow to the pilothouse, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 19 March 1943. Note details of the ship's bridge and Mark 33 gun director. Also note open passenger tractor-trailer rig at right and supply storage area in the distance. Credit: NAVY.

If dreams came true. The traction co. manager's ideal--when every passenger shall find his proper niche / Herbert Johnson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pan American Martin Clipper: Berths, upper passenger yawning. Credit: Library of Congress.

A pre-war view of a boatload of passenger automobiles ready for shipment, Guntersville (vicinity), Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hanover Junction, Pa. Passenger train at depot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chicago and North Western Ry. passenger train. Credit: Library of Congress.

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She paused, before following him, to watch the progress of the other passenger.

His secret eyes turned on his passenger.

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Business

Pulleys and hoists, passenger and freight elevators. (references)

The CKS Third Phase Expansion Project consists of one passenger terminal. (references)

Combined vehicles are popular due to the lower taxes compared with regular passenger vehicles. (references)

Civil Liberties

East Timor

UNTAET was organizing a new passenger ferry service, but the ferry was not in operation by year's end. (references)

East Timor

A passenger ferry between Oecussi and the rest of East Timor was discontinued due to safety concerns, making the land route through Indonesia the only link to the rest of East Timor for Oecussi residents. (references)

Congo

MONUC negotiated the passage of some of its own goods, including two fuel barges, and escorted several humanitarian convoys up the River; however, commercial and passenger travel had not resumed by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

With 193,916 aircraft movements, 33,374,000 passengers and 2,267,175 tons of cargo throughput in 2000, the Hong Kong International Airport ranks fifth in the world in terms of international passenger throughput and first in terms of cargo handled. (references)

Russia

Since then, however, there has been modest growth in passenger volumes, which should reach 23 million in 2001. This increase occurred despite large increases in fuel prices during the same period, which account for 30% of airlines' expenses, and must be attributed to Russia's improving economy. (references)

Russia

Railway transport is the leading means of transportation in Russia, carrying 81% of the country's freight turnover and 43% of the country's passenger turnover. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

Treminio approached the passenger, Noel Antonio Flores Montoya, robbed his watch, and then shot him. (references)

Nicaragua

One hour later a second passenger bus was approaching the area where the police had captured the assailants, and police officers signaled the bus to slow down. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

On April 20 in Daloa, a police officer shot at a taxi driver who refused to stop for a routine police check; the passenger, student Lagou Romeo, was shot in the arm and did not receive any care or assistance from the police. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

Malaysia also maintains local content requirements of 45 to 60 percent for passenger and commercial vehicles, and 60 percent for motorcycles. (references)

HONG KONG

Our bilateral civil aviation agreement does not permit code sharing and restricts the ability of U.S. cargo and passenger airlines to carry fifth freedom traffic to and from Hong Kong and other points. (references)

VENEZUELA

Under the Andean Community's Common Automotive Policy (CAP), assembled passenger vehicles constitute an exception to the 20 percent maximum tariff and are subject to 35 percent import duties. (references)

Trade

Australia

The remainder of tariff lines above five percent, apply entirely to passenger motor vehicles (PMV) and textiles, clothing and footwear (TCF). (references)

India

Samples of such items that are otherwise freely importable under the Policy may also be imported as part of passenger baggage without a license. (references)

Vietnam

Locally produced commercial automobiles such as trucks and vans are exempt from the luxury tax, but subject to Value Added Tax (VAT) of 10 percent, which is not applied to passenger automobiles. (references)

Travel

Israel

A small railroad network with two main lines providing passenger and freight services connects Tel Aviv and Haifa, and Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva. (references)

Barbados

Accommodates international, regional, and local traffic; passenger and freight service. (references)

Qatar

To cope with the increasing passenger and freight traffic (16 percent increase in 1997-98) the Government plans to construct a new large airport facility adjacent to the present one. (references)

Worker Rights

India

Work by children under 14 years of age is barred completely in "hazardous industries," which includes among other things, passenger, goods, and mail transport by railway. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "passenger": aft passenger compartment ♦ aft passenger compartment door ♦ arriving passenger ♦ arriving passenger amenities ♦ arriving passenger service ♦ Athens Passenger Convention 1974 ♦ captive public transport passenger ♦ clandestine passenger ♦ curtained doorway to passenger area ♦ departing passenger ♦ fellow passenger ♦ foot passenger ♦ forward passenger door ♦ inland waterways passenger disembarked ♦ inland waterways passenger embarked ♦ main passenger door ♦ new passenger car registrations ♦ outside passenger ♦ passenger address system ♦ passenger airbag ♦ passenger aircraft ♦ passenger boat ♦ passenger bridge ♦ passenger cabin ♦ passenger car ♦ passenger car which correspond to a model withing the contract programme ♦ passenger carriage ♦ passenger categories ♦ passenger coach ♦ passenger entrance door ♦ passenger falcon ♦ passenger frontal protection airbag ♦ passenger in a coach ♦ passenger interchange ♦ passenger liner ♦ passenger list ♦ passenger load factor ♦ passenger loading bridge ♦ passenger manifest ♦ passenger mile ♦ passenger mileage ♦ passenger pier ♦ passenger pigeon ♦ passenger plane ♦ passenger road motor vehicle ♦ passenger sales agent ♦ passenger seat ♦ passenger seats available ♦ passenger service ♦ passenger service charge ♦ passenger ship ♦ passenger stairway tunnel ♦ passenger station ♦ passenger traffic ♦ passenger train ♦ passenger trip ♦ passenger van ♦ pillion passenger ♦ rail passenger disembarked ♦ rail passenger embarked ♦ revenue passenger ♦ revenue passenger load factor ♦ road passenger disembarked ♦ road passenger embarked ♦ road passenger transport link ♦ saloon passenger ♦ sea passenger ♦ sea passenger disembarked ♦ sea passenger embarked ♦ sea passenger transport link ♦ sidecar passenger ♦ steerage passenger ♦ taxi class passenger flight ♦ through passenger ♦ transfer passenger ♦ urban road passenger enterprise ♦ way passenger. Additional references.

Beginning with "passenger": passenger-boat, passenger-carried, passenger-carrying, passenger-door, passenger-jet, passenger-kilometer performed, passenger-kilometre, passenger-kilometres, passenger-level, passenger-liability, passenger-miles, passenger-seat, passenger-side, passenger-space, passenger-steamship, Passenger-to-be, passenger-tube.

Ending with "passenger": car-passenger, deck-passenger, ex-passenger, fellow-passenger, foot-passenger, four-passenger, lever-to-passenger, naturalist-passenger, road-passenger, scheduled-passenger.

Afrikaans

passasier. (various references)

Albanian

udhëtar (cruiser, fare, peregrinator, pilgrim, roadster, traveler, traveller, viator, voyager, wayfarer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسافر (hiker, traveler, traveling, traveller, travelling, tripper, voyager), ‏عابر السبيل, ‏المسافر (traveler, traveller, wayfarer), ‏الراكب (occupant), ‏راكب (imbricate, lap, one horse, rider, riding, superimpose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пътнически (stopping, traveling, travelling), пътник (fare, occupant, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, traveler, traveller, wayfarer), пасажерски, пасажер. (various references)

Chinese 

乘客 . (various references)

Czech

pasažér (fare), osobní (individual, personal), cestující (fare, itinerant, traveler, traveller, treveller). (various references)

Danish

passager. (various references)

Dutch

passagier, inzittende. (various references)

Esperanto

pasaĝero. (various references)

Faeroese

ferðafólk (tourist). (various references)

Farsi 

مسافرتی , مسافر (Pilgrim, Roomer, Traveler), گذرگر, عابر (Passer), رونده . (various references)

Finnish

matkustaja (traveller). (various references)

French

passager (passing), voyageur. (various references)

German

Passagier (voyager), Fahrgast (fare), Insasse (inhabitant, inmate, occupant), Fluggast (air passenger). (various references)

Greek 

επιβάτης. (various references)

Hawaiian

udhëtar. (various references)

Hebrew 

נוסע (traveler, voyager). (various references)

Hungarian

utas (fare, rider, traveler, traveller, wayfarer). (various references)

Icelandic

farþegi. (various references)

Indonesian

penunggang (rider), penumpang (daycoach). (various references)

Italian

passeggero (ephemeral, fare, passing, voyager), passagiere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

舟人 (boatman, sailor), 船人 (boatman), 船客 , パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 搭乗者 , 旅客 , 渡航者 (visitor), 乗手 (good rider, rider), 乗客　, 乗客 , 乗り手 (good rider, rider). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パッセンジャー , ふなびと (boatman, sailor), のりて (good rider, rider), せんきゃく (the preceding visitor), りょきゃく, りょかく, じょうきゃく (good customer, guest of honor, patron, regular customer), じょうかく (castle, castle walls, citadel, enclosure, fortress), とうじょうしゃ, とこうしゃ (visitor). (various references)

Korean 

객. (various references)

Manx

troailtagh (carpet-bagger; travelling, commuter, itinerant, itinerate, passerby, rep, representative, traveller, travelling salesman, traverse, trekker, wayfarer). (various references)

Papiamen

pasahero. (various references)

Pig Latin

assengerpay.(various references)

Portuguese

passageiro (ephemeral, faddy, fare, fleet, momentary, passing, perfunctory, rider, temporary, transitional, transitory, wayfarer). (various references)

Romanian

pasager (fare, goer, rider, traveller), om care nu-şi face partea de muncã, musafir (guest, visitor), luftinspektor, cãlãtor (excursionist, fare, fleeting, goer, itinerant, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, roaming, short lived, tourist, transitory, traveller, travelling, vagrant, visitor, voyager, wayfarer, wayfaring man). (various references)

Russian 

пассажир (fare). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

putnik (fare, itinerant, passer, tourer, traveler, traveller, vacationer, vacationist, voyager, wayfarer), putnički (wayfaring), zabušant (malingerer, quitter, shirker, slacker, truant). (various references)

Spanish

pasajero (fare, fleeting, passing, rider, transient). (various references)

Swahili

abiria. (various references)

Swedish

trafikant (traveller), passagerare (fare). (various references)

Turkish

yolcu (fare, pilgrim, traveler, traveller, voyager), işten kaytaran kimse, gezgin (traveler, traveller, voyager, wanderer, widely traveled), beleşçi (free rider, freeloader, hanger-on, parasite, scrounger, sponge, sponger, tufthunter). (various references)

Turkmen 

яolagзy.Turkmen/English Dictionary 103. (various references)

Ukrainian

сідок, пасажир (boarder, sitter, voyager). (various references)

Vietnamese 

để chở hành khách. (various references)

Welsh

teithiwr (traveler). (various references)

passageor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "passenger": passengers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Passenger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bissinger, Kasenga, passanger, Passega, passeng, passenges, Pessagno, Possente. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: asperges, presages.

-2 letters: asperse, enrages, gaspers, greases, pareses, presage, sangers, senegas, serapes, sparges, sprangs.

-3 letters: agenes, agrees, angers, arpens, aspens, aspers, eagers, eagres, egress, enrage, erases, gapers, gasper, gasser, genera, genres, grapes, grasps, grease, greens, pagers, parges, parses, passee, passer, peages, peasen, peases, perses, prangs, prases, preens, ragees, ranees, ranges, repass, repegs, sanger.

+1 letter: passengers, personages.

+2 letters: grapinesses, parageneses, paragenesis, preassigned, spongewares, superagents.

+3 letters: generalships, greasepaints.

+4 letters: cheeseparings, graphicnesses, phrasemongers, predesignates, scenographers, scenographies, sheepshearing, stenographers, stenographies, superagencies.

+5 letters: disparagements, gelandesprungs, graspingnesses, letterspacings, magnetospheres, rampageousness, sheepshearings, stepparentings, suprasegmental.