passenger

noun

pas·​sen·​ger ˈpa-sᵊn-jər 

often attributive

1

: wayfarer

2

: a traveler in a public or private conveyance

Examples of passenger in a Sentence

There were two passengers in the car in addition to the driver.

There's no room for passengers on this project; everybody must do his share of the work.

Recent Examples on the Web

The adult driver and child passenger were both taken to local hospitals and are expected to survive. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

The airline will also retrofit aircraft so passengers in all cabins will be able to use the screens and other additions like Bluetooth audio pairing and USB-C charging. — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026

For now, the project serves as a research platform for studying future large passenger aircraft. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026

The raw data includes nearly 100 million passenger names and nearly 13 million active email addresses as well as nearly 176,000 employee records and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, according to court documents. — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Word History

Etymology

Middle English passager, from Anglo-French, from passage path, way, passage, from passer

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing passenger

• passenger car
• passenger pigeon
• passenger princess
• passenger rail
• passenger seat
• passenger train

Kids Definition

passenger

noun

pas·​sen·​ger ˈpas-ᵊn-jər 

: a person riding in or on a vehicle