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English Dictionary: passport by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passport
n
  1. any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
    Synonym(s): pass, passport
  2. a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
  3. 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"
    Synonym(s): recommendation, passport
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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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