passenger(n = noun.person) rider - a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it;
is a kind of traveler, traveller
has particulars: commuter, fare, hitchhiker, stowaway, straphanger
1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. [1913 Webster]
passenger, n.
1 a traveller in or on a public or private conveyance (other than the driver, pilot, crew, etc.).
2 colloq. a member of a team, crew, etc., who does no effective work.
3 (attrib.) for the use of passengers (passenger seat).
Idiom:
passenger-mile one mile travelled by one passenger, as a unit of traffic. passenger-pigeon an extinct wild pigeon of N. America, capable of long flight.
Etymology:
ME f. OF passager f. OF passager (adj.) passing (as passage(1)): -n- as in messenger etc.
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.
passenger car, passenger mile, passenger mileage, passenger pigeon, passenger ship, passenger train, passenger van, passenger vehicle