PASSENGER
Dictionary entry overview: What does passenger mean?
• PASSENGER (noun)
The noun PASSENGER has 1 sense:
1. a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
Familiarity information: PASSENGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PASSENGER (noun)
Meaning:
A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
passenger; rider
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)
