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n.
  1. A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation.
  2. Informal. A person who participates only passively in an activity.
  3. A wayfarer or traveler.

[Middle English passinger, alteration of passager, from Old French passageor, from passager, passing, from passage, passage. See passage1.]


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Definition: person which rides along
Antonyms: driver

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IN BRIEF: A person traveling in a car, bus, plane, ship, or other conveyance, but not driving or helping to operate it.

pronunciation On my underground railroad I never ran my train off the track. And I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913), African-American abolitionist.

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A passenger is a passive participant in a vehicle that is moving along. Positively, it could be a sense of going away to a vacation spot. Alternatively, a dream about being a passenger could represent a sense of being borne along by circumstances we do not control. If we are the driver, then perhaps we are taking responsibility for the passengers.

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This article is about passengers in commercial transportation; for other uses see Passenger (disambiguation)
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Passengers sleeping on a train.
Passengers on a boat in the Danube delta

A passenger is a term broadly used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination.

There are two common contexts in which the term is used:

  • The first is for persons transported in automobiles or vans, irrespective of whether they have paid for the transportation.
  • The second is for persons who pay to be transported in common carriers, including commercial vehicles and vessels such as buses, trains, airplanes, and ships. For example, a flight attendant on an airline or a cruise ship employee aboard such a ship would not be considered a "passenger" while aboard the vessel, but an employee riding in a company car being driven by another person would be considered a passenger, even if the car was being driven on company business.

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Position

  • Front passengers are situated near the driver.
  • Rear passengers are behind the driver in the back seats.

Railways

In railway parlance, 'passenger', as well as being the end user of a service, is also a categorisation of the type of rolling stock used.[1] In the British case, there are several categories of passenger train.[1] These categories include:

  • 'Express passenger', which constitutes long distance and high speed railway travel between major locations such as ports and cities.[1]
  • 'Semi-fast express passenger', a type of service that is high speed, though stops at selected destinations of high population density en-route.[1]
  • 'Local passenger', the lowest category of British passenger train, which provides a service that stops at all stations between major destinations, for the benefit of local populations.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Simmons, J. and Biddle, G. (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) ISBN 0192116975

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - passager

Nederlands (Dutch)
passagier, passagiers-, reiziger (te voet), klaploper

Français (French)
n. - passager, voyageur, (GB) parasite, tire-au-flanc

Deutsch (German)
n. - Passagier, Fahrgast, Beifahrer

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επιβάτης (μεταφορικού μέσου), ταξιδιώτης

Italiano (Italian)
passeggero

Português (Portuguese)
n. - passageiro (m), viajante

Русский (Russian)
пассажир

Español (Spanish)
n. - pasajero, viajero

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - passagerare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
乘客, 旅客

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 乘客, 旅客

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 승객, 무능자, 짐스러운 존재

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 乗客, 船客, 足手まとい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مسافر بسيارة, ركاب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נוסע, עובד לא יעיל‬

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