passager

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English

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Noun

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passager (plural passagers)

  1. (falconry) A bird in its first year.
    • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
      He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. Cully was a passager. But if the poor Wart could only mark him to roost, and if Hob would only arrive then with a dark lantern, they might still take him that night by climbing the tree, while he was sleepy and muddled with the light.

Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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From French passager.

Noun

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passager c (singular definite passageren, plural indefinite passagerer)

  1. passenger

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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French passagier, from passage. Adjective derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pa.sa.ʒe/ ~ /pɑ.sa.ʒe/
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Noun

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passager m (plural passagers, feminine passagère)

  1. passenger
  2. (archaic) traveller

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Albanian: pasagjer
  • Danish: passager
  • Polish: pasażer
  • Romanian: pasager

Adjective

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passager (feminine passagère, masculine plural passagers, feminine plural passagères)

  1. whose presence in a location is only temporary; passing
  2. of a short duration; temporary; transitory, fleeting, flighty
    • 1923, Louis Segond, transl., 2 Cr. 3:11:
      En effet, si ce qui était passager a été glorieux, ce qui est permanent est bien plus glorieux.
      For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. (World English)
  3. (informal, of a street or place) busy

Further reading

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Swedish

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Noun

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passager

  1. indefinite plural of passage