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Plural of passenger

regular plural

The plural of passenger is passengers.

Forms of passenger

Singularpassenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒə/
Pluralpassengers /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒəz/
Countablecountable

Passengers in a sentence

  • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
  • Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
  • Some of the passengers were heard praising God as the stricken plane landed safely.From the entry praise
  • The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash.From the entry smash
  • The train was gapped just outside the station, and passengers were stranded for nearly two hours.From the entry gap

Meaning of passenger

  1. noun One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
  2. noun Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
  3. noun A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.

Full definition of passenger

Questions about the plural of passenger

What is the plural of passenger?
The plural of passenger is passengers.
Is passenger countable?
Passenger is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: passenger (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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