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noun

Passport n.

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."

A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.

A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.

Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. "His passport is his innocence and grace."

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Etymology of 'Passport'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Passport" Quotes from Famous Books

... certain seasons of great amount, and more or less at all times. The city is situated on the left bank of the sacred Ganges, to bathe in which insures to the devout Hindoo forgiveness of all sins, and an easy passport to the regions of the blessed. In entering the ancient capital we crossed the Ganges on a bridge of boats very similar to that at Cologne on the Rhine. As we drove through the streets troops of pilgrims, pitiable to behold, foot-sore and weary, were met coming from the Punjab a thousand miles away, ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... could not help it, for he carried the talisman that opens all hearts, and these simple people warmed to him at once, feeling even the more friendly because he was poor. For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits. Mr. Bhaer sat looking about him with the air of a traveler who knocks at a strange door, and when it opens, finds himself at home. The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... and already sends adventures in his master's ships, when he had better be sailing mimic-boats upon a mill-pond. Another figure in the scene is the outward-bound sailor in quest of a protection; or the recently arrived one, pale and feeble, seeking a passport to the hospital. Nor must we forget the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough-looking set of tarpaulins, without the alertness of the Yankee ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... I've a photograph and a passport and some letters. It isn't that I'm really afraid, but I hate being alone, and you look so nice, Philip dear. I always loved you in blue serge, and I adore your eyeglass. You really have been clever in the small things you have done to change your ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Watson sent another flag to Marion, requesting that he would grant a passport to his lieutenant Torquano, who was badly wounded, and wished to be carried to Charleston. On receiving the flag, which happened while I was by him, Marion turned to me, and with a smile said, "Well, this note of colonel Watson looks a little as if he were coming to his ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

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