English > rider: 4 senses > noun 4, person | Meaning | A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it. |
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| Synonym | passenger |
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| Category | airplane, aeroplane, plane | An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets |
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| boat | A small vessel for travel on water |
| bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle | A vehicle carrying many passengers |
| car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar | A motor vehicle with four wheels |
| train, railroad train | public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive |
| Narrower | commuter | someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
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| fare | A paying (taxi) passenger |
| hitchhiker | A person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles |
| stowaway | A person who hides / hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage |
| straphanger | A standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support |
| Broader | traveler, traveller | A person who changes location |
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| Spanish | pasajero |
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| Catalan | passatger |
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| Verbs | ride | be carried or travel on or in a vehicle |
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