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English Dictionary: Passenger by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passenger
n
  1. a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
    Synonym(s): passenger, rider
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Passenger \Pas"sen*ger\, n. [OE. & F. passager. See {Passage},
      and cf. {Messenger}.]
      1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. --Shak.
  
      2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach,
            steamboat, railroad train, etc.
  
      {Passenger falcon} (Zo[94]l.), a migratory hawk. --Ainsworth.
  
      {Passenger pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the common wild pigeon of
            North America ({Ectopistes migratorius}), so called on
            account of its extensive migrations.
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