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passport |
3 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: passport n 1: any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" [syn: {pass}] 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 acceptance or admission; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.
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