passenger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person travelling in a vehicle who is not driving it.

   The bus can carry up to fifty passengers.

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Simplified etymology

Passenger entered English in the Middle Ages from the same word family as pass, passage, and pace. The n was added to an earlier form by analogy with words such as messenger.

From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).

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