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# passenger

«passenger» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who travels in a bus, train, car, ship or plane…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (passenger, passengers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A passenger is a person who travels in a bus, train, car, ship or plane but does not drive or fly it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#m1)

2) The passenger seat is the seat next to the driver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: people on a bus or train; getting on adds, getting off takes away; passengers per bus or carriage; seats and tickets. In everyday life and safety: wear a seat belt as a passenger; passengers wait on the platform. Phrases: «passenger seat», «passenger train», «passenger plane», «front-seat passenger».

### examples

- A bus has 30 passengers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x1)
- 8 passengers get off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x2)
- 5 passengers get on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x3)
- How many passengers are on the bus now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x4)
- The plane carries 180 passengers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x5)
- All passengers must wear seat belts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x6)
- Passengers waited on the platform for the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x7)
- Children under 12 should not sit in the front passenger seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x8)
- "What is it o'clock, watchman?" inquired a passenger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a passenger». Maths: getting on → add, getting off → take away; do the stops in order. Trap: the driver is not a passenger.

### In the corpora

- [The first hot-air balloon passengers, in 1783, were a sheep, a duck and a cockerel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/13/)
- [You let passengers get off a train or bus before you get on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/15/)
- [Passengers talk quietly and settle arguments calmly, because the driver must concentrate on the road.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/10/)
- [A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/22/)
- [Big passenger planes fly about 10 kilometres up, above most clouds and storms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «passenger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passenger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.