passenger
Meanings
Plural: passengers
Noun
- a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
- One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
- Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
- A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
- A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
- A passer-by; a wayfarer.
- A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
- A moth, Dysgonia algira
- Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
Verb
- To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).
Scrabble Score: 12
passenger is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpassenger is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
passenger is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
passenger is a valid Words With Friends word