passenger

Etymology

From Old French passagier.

noun

1. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
   A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. 2013-06-01, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
2. (informal, chiefly UK) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
3. (falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
4. (obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
5. (obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
   [The boys] have taken possession of the turnpike road to play the before-mentioned games, to the serious inconvenience of the passengers, one of whom, a woman, was yesterday knocked down by a nurr which struck her in the head. Quoted in 1905, William Carew Hazlitt, Faiths and Folklore (volume 2, page 595)
6. (obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
7. A moth, Dysgonia algira
8. (military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.