passager

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

• Passarge, grass pea, grass-pea, grasspea

Etymology

From French passager.

Noun

passager c (singular definite passageren, plural indefinite passagerer)

1. passenger

References

• “passager” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sa.ʒe/ ~ /pɑ.sa.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Noun

passager m (plural passagers, feminine passagère)

1. passenger
   • 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 22, in Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie:

     Il emportait un plein chargement de marchandises et de passagers.

     She carried a full load of merchandises and passengers.

2. (archaic) traveller
   • 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, Invocation:

     Habitante du ciel, passagère en ces lieux !

     Dweller of the sky, a mere traveler here!

Adjective

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

1. whose presence in a location is only temporary; passing
   • 1819, André Chénier, L’enlèvement d’Europe:

     Comme le lin qui pousse une nef passagère

     Like the linen that moves a passing ship

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

• “passager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Noun

passager

1. indefinite plural of passage