/ˈpæsɪndʒə/
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Translation
A person who travels in a car, bus, train, plane, or ship but does not drive it.
Word origin
From Old French passager, meaning passing or a traveller, with an n added later, as in messenger.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- passager
- English cognates
- pass, passage
Grammar
Gender
Pluralpassengers
Examples
forty .
Passengers are the people riding, not the driver.
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The passenger seat is the front seat beside the driver.
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On trains and planes, the travellers are called passengers.
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