Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as passagère.
  • noun An obsolete form of passenger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

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  • noun falconry A bird in its first year

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Examples

  • Some kid hit us from the passager side and push us right into a phone pole.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • What the President and the GOP should state of the passager or passagers who help to deleate this horrible thing and that they were heroes ..

    The return of terror politics 2009

  • We boarded a "sleeper train," my first experience on such a vehicle, which looks like a regular passager train from the outside, but inside is composed of 3-shelf bunk beds, just long and wide enough for the average Chinese.

    Spring Festival 2008! Phil Razem 2008

  • We boarded a "sleeper train," my first experience on such a vehicle, which looks like a regular passager train from the outside, but inside is composed of 3-shelf bunk beds, just long and wide enough for the average Chinese.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Phil Razem 2008

  • Death hath not only particular stars in heaven, but malevolent places on earth, which single out our infirmities, and strike at our weaker parts; in which concern, passager and migrant birds have the great advantages, who are naturally constituted for distant habitations, whom no seas nor places limit, but in their appointed seasons will visit us from

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • Le dialogue interreligieux et interculturel entre chrétiens et musulmans ne peut pas se réduire à un choix passager.

    Zenit doing Vatican PR to contain Muslim controversy Suzanne 2006

  • Assis sur le siege passager avant de la voiture de severine je comate la tete appuyé au careau, legerement incliné pour lire les doc 'amassé au forum.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Mais bon apres tout je generai le passager c pas trop grave ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • "Oh, you are wasted among the mages, passager, " she crowed.

    Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • "Well, with pauses for refreshment, that opportunity you will have, passager, " she said, clearly very pleased with his reaction.

    Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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  • The OED also gives an alternate meaning of "a curled lock of hair on the temples." (correct me if I'm wrong..)

    April 16, 2013