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pass⋅port

  [pas-pawrt, -pohrt, pahs-]
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–noun
1. an official document issued by the government of a country to one of its citizens and, varying from country to country, authorizing travel to foreign countries and authenticating the bearer's identity, citizenship, right to protection while abroad, and right to reenter his or her native country.
2. anything that ensures admission or acceptance: A good education can be your passport to success.
3. any authorization to pass or go somewhere.
4. a document issued to a ship, esp. to a neutral merchant ship in time of war, granting or requesting permission to proceed without molestation in certain waters.
5. a certificate intended to secure admission.
Origin:
1490–1500; earlier passeport < MF, equiv. to passe- (s. of passer to pass ) + port port 1

Related forms:
pass⋅port⋅less, adjective
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pass·port   (pās'pôrt', -pōrt')   
n.  
  1. An official government document that certifies one's identity and citizenship and permits a citizen to travel abroad.
  2. An official permit issued by a foreign country allowing one to transport goods or to travel through that country.
  3. An official document issued by an allied foreign government to a ship, especially a neutral merchant ship in time of war, authorizing it to enter and travel through certain waters freely.
  4. Something that gives one the right or privilege of passage, entry, or acceptance: Hard work was her passport to success.

[French passeport, from Old French : passer, to pass; see pass + port, port; see port1.]
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Passport

Pass"port\, n. [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. --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. --Burrill.

4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. --Sir P. Sidney.

His passport is his innocence and grace. --Dryden.
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Language Translation for : passport
Spanish: pasaporte,
German: der Paß,
Japanese: 旅券
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passport 
c.1500, from M.Fr. passeport "authorization to pass through a port" to enter or leave a country (15c.), from passe, imper. of O.Fr. passer "to pass" + port "port."
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