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PASSENGER
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I. (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
Synonyms:
passenger; rider
Classified under:
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:
Numbers of the passengers were leaping overboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was the only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then I looked around me, and as the ship was now, in a sense, my own, I began to think of clearing it from its last passenger—the dead man, O'Brien.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Would it be possible for me to inspect the train which contained the passenger who heard the thud of a fall in the fog?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Accidents on streets, roads, and highways involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or vehicles.
(Automobile Accident, NCI Thesaurus)
He said J Bruce Ismay, President of the firm behind construction of RMS Titanic, ordered the twelve men tasked to attempting to control the fire to avoid informing passengers.
(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)
Next day we were picked up by the brig Hotspur, bound for Australia, whose captain found no difficulty in believing that we were the survivors of a passenger ship which had foundered.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The coach was clear of passengers by that time, the luggage was very soon cleared out, the horses had been taken out before the luggage, and now the coach itself was wheeled and backed off by some hostlers, out of the way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft design.
(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)
The ship in which I sailed, was the first ever known to be driven within sight of that coast, and the king had given strict orders, that if at any time another appeared, it should be taken ashore, and with all its crew and passengers brought in a tumbril to Lorbrulgrud.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
