passager

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English

Noun

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

Danish

Etymology

From French passager.

Noun

passager c (singular definite passageren, plural indefinite passagerer)

  1. passenger

Declension

Declension of passager
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative passager passageren passagerer passagererne
genitive passagers passagerens passagerers passagerernes

References

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

passager m (plural passagers, feminine passagère)

  1. passenger
  2. (archaic) traveller

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Adjective

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

Swedish

Noun

passager

  1. indefinite plural of passage
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