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passager

passager noun: a bird in its first year.

Noun

passager (plural passagers)

  1. A bird in its first year.
    • 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...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)

Forms of passager

pluralpassagers

Origin of passager

Apparently from passage + -er.

Questions about passager

What does passager mean?
Passager means a bird in its first year.
What part of speech is passager?
Passager is a noun.
What is the plural of passager?
The plural of passager is passagers.

Words near passager in the dictionary

  1. passageboard
  2. passageboards
  3. passaged
  4. passagemaker
  5. passagemakers
  6. passager
  7. passagers
  8. passages
  9. passages of arms
  10. passageway
  11. passageways

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