passager

passager (plural passagers)

1. (falconry) A bird in its first year

• Passarge, grass pea

From French passager

passager c (singular definite passageren, plural indefinite passagerer)

1. passenger

• “passager” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /pɑ.sa.ʒe/, /pa.sa.ʒe/

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passager m (plural passagers, feminine passagère)

1. Passenger.
   • 1873, Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, XXII,

     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!

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passager (feminine singular 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 (translation), 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.

• “passager” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).