passport
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)passports
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere“the pass to visit had a strict time limit”Synonyms: passType of permissionKinds safe-conduct, safeguard
- a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home countryType of legal document, legal instrumentParts visa
- any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission“her pleasant personality is already a recommendation”“his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society”Synonyms: recommendationType of characteristic
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Translations
Noun official document for foreign travel
- Spanish
- pasaporte
- French
- passeport
- German
- Reisepass
- Italian
- passaporto
- Portuguese
- passaporte
- Turkish
- pasaport
- Russian
- па́спорт pásport
- Arabic
- جَوَاز سَفَر jawāz safar
- Chinese
- 护照 hùzhào
- Japanese
- パスポート pasupōto
36 more languages
- Dutch
- paspoort
- Polish
- paszport
- Swedish
- pass
- Greek
- διαβατήριο diavatírio
- Korean
- 여권 yeogwon
- Indonesian
- paspor
- Vietnamese
- hộ chiếu
- Hungarian
- útlevél
- Portuguese (PT)
- passaporte
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 護照 hùzhào
- Albanian
- pasaportë
- Breton
- paseporzh
- Catalan
- passaport
- Corsican
- passaportu
- Czech
- pas
- Danish
- pas
- Esperanto
- pasporto
- Estonian
- pass
- Finnish
- passi
- Georgian
- პასპორტი ṗasṗorṭi
- Hebrew
- דַּרְכּוֹן darkón
- Icelandic
- vegabréf
- Kurdish
- pasaport
- Latvian
- pase
- Lithuanian
- pasas
- Malagasy
- pasipaoro
- Norwegian
- pass
- Romanian
- pașaport
- Scottish Gaelic
- cead-siubhail
- Serbo-Croatian
- putovnica
- Slovak
- pas
- Slovenian
- potni list
- Swahili
- pasipoti
- Walloon
- paspôrt
- Welsh
- pasbort
- Yiddish
- פּאַספּאָרט pasport
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor.
1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
Caution in granting passports to Ireland.— Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon
2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir Philip Sidney
His passport is his innocence and grace.— John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54