Meaning of passport | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
2. Any document that allows entry or passage.
   broadly, informal
3. a document of identification, necessary for foreign travel. a British passport. paspoort جَواز سَفَر паспорт passaporte cestovní pas der Paß pas διαβατήριοpasaporte pass گذرنامه passi passeportדרכון पासपोर्ट putovnica, putna isprava útlevél paspor vegabréf passaporto 旅券 여권 pasas pase pasport paspoortpasspaszport پاسپورټ passaporte paşaport паспорт pas potni list pasoš pass หนังสือเดินทาง pasaport 護照 паспорт پاسپورٹ، پروانہ راہ داري hộ chiếu 护照
4. Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
   figuratively
5. An official document issued by a government identifying a citizen, certifying his or her nationality, and formally requesting admittance and safe passage from foreign countries.
6. An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
7. An official permit issued by a foreign country allowing one to transport goods or to travel through that country.
8. 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.
9. Something that gives one the right or privilege of passage, entry, or acceptance: Hard work was her passport to success.
10. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an official document issued by a government, identifying an individual, granting him permission to travel abroad, and requesting the protection of other governments for him
11. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a licence granted by a state to a foreigner, allowing the passage of his person or goods through the country
12. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) another word for sea letter1
13. a quality, asset, etc, that gains a person admission or acceptance
14. an official document issued by a government to one of its citizens, authenticating the bearer's identity and right to travel to and return from other countries.

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Examples

“You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.”

“Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.”

“Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency.”

“The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.”

“Thus like the ſad preſaging Rauen that tolls / The ſick mans paſſeport in her hollovv beake, / And in the ſhadovv of the ſilent night / Doth ſhake contagion from her ſable vvings; / Vex'd and tormented runnes poore Barabas / VVith fatall curſes tovvards theſe Chriſtians.”

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