Antonyms for passenger

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pas-uh n-jer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæs ən dʒər

driver
owner

Definition of passenger

Origin : early 14c., passager "passer-by," from Old French passagier "traveler, passer-by" (Modern French passager), noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage).
And in this I resemble the Lappwing, who fearing hir young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not .... [John Lyly, "Euphues and His England," 1580]
The -n- was added early 15c. (cf. messenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of North America so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.

noun person who rides in vehicle conducted by another

Example sentences :

Half fearfully I look at my passenger, but he is a black man.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

I was put on board as a passenger, and we sailed about a week after the ship got in from London.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

We had a passenger, who passed for some revolutionary man, who also landed secretly.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

She was the only passenger in the diligence, and the door was locked.
Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous

As he walked up the deck, he saw there was one passenger who had been earlier than himself.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

I am a passenger on board this ship, and am supposed to be under the protection of its captain.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

There is no record, however, of any passenger by the name of Martin Grey.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

The passenger on his right was a girl—red-haired and undeniably attractive.
Extract from : « No Hiding Place » by Richard R. Smith

Ken locked the controls and scrambled back into the passenger compartment.
Extract from : « Under Arctic Ice » by H.G. Winter

The passenger smiled, but there was a dreamy look in his gray eyes.
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Synonyms for passenger

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