PASSENGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passenger mean? 

• PASSENGER (noun)
  The noun PASSENGER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PASSENGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSENGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

passenger; rider

Hypernyms ("passenger" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Domain category:

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

autobus; bus; charabanc; coach; double-decker; jitney; motorbus; motorcoach; omnibus; passenger vehicle (a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport)

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passenger"):

commuter (someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city)

fare (a paying (taxi) passenger)

hitchhiker (a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles)

stowaway (a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage)

straphanger (a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support)

 Context examples 

A question about an individual's activity of being a passenger in a car for an hour without a break.

(Passenger in Car for Hour without Break, NCI Thesaurus)

Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) As a passenger in a car for an hour without a break.

(ESS - As a Passenger in a Car for an Hour Without a Break, NCI Thesaurus)

The Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit is made up of three cars, is 30 meters long and is capable of carrying about 500 passengers.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected, but though I asked each passenger, no one would give me the slightest explanation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You seem to know everything, so I expect that you know that I met her when she was a passenger and I was first officer of the Rock of Gibraltar.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Chromosomes are not just passengers along for a ride with the spindle, but active participants in the nucleation and stabilization of spindle microtubules in their near vicinity.

(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides; for Mr. Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped; the horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He could not stand them any more than he could stand the stupid first-cabin passengers and the riotous young people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I’ve seen a driver warm up the off-side passenger on the roof behind him every time he tried to cut his off-side wheeler.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)