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stowaway en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From stow away, from stow and away.

Meanings

1. A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
   • “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.” 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The First Lowering”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 242:
   • In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway. 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
   • My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
   • One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide. 1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter VII, in The After House:

Forms

Translations (50)

ko 밀항자 (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fo sníkiferðafólk (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ca polissona (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · de blinde Passagierin (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sv fripassagerare (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · lb blanne Passagéier (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · mi pāhihi parau (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · es polizón (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · tr kaçak yolcu (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ka ფარულად მომგზავრე (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fo loyniferðafólk (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ka დამალული მგზავრი (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fi vapaamatkustaja (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · nn blindpassasjer (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · nb blindpassasjer (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · hu potyautas (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · pdt Reisendoop (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · pt passageiro clandestino (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sh slijepi putnik (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fi salamatkustaja (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · pl pasażer na gapę (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · eo kaŝpasaĝero (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · cmn 偷渡者 (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · mk слеп па́тник (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · da blind passager (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · gl polisón (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · es polizona (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fi jänis (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ka უბილეთო მგზავრი (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · is laumufarþegi (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · cy teithiwr cudd (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · de blinder Passagier (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ca polissó (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · cs černý pasažér (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · mi pekewaka (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · he נוֹסֵעַ סָמוּי (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · pl ślepy pasażer (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fo blindur passasjerur (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ka მალულად მომგზავრე (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ja 密航者 (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sv blindpassagerare (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · ru безбилетник (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · fr passager clandestin (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sh слијепи путник (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sl slepi potnik (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · mk безби́летник (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · sv gratispassagerare (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · it clandestino (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · is farþjófur (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.) · nl verstekeling (person who hides on a ship, train, etc.)