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Definition of Passport

1. Noun. Any authorization to pass or go somewhere. "The pass to visit had a strict time limit"

2. Noun. A document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country.

3. Noun. Any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission. "His wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"

Definition of Passport

1. 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.

Definition of Passport

1. Noun. An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued. ¹

2. Noun. (by extension informal) Any document that allows entry or passage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Passport

1. a document allowing travel from one country to another [n -S]

Literary usage of Passport

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The main imports from the United Kingdom arc passport Application! for Foreign Office passports must be made on the forms obtainable at any of the passport ..."

2. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"Nature and Purpose of passport System. The issuing of passports is a convenient system ... Technically, the foreign country grants the citizen the passport, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"Such would be the case of a royal passport, signed in blank, obtained by corruption ... Here is a passport de facto, with all the solemnities upon its face, ..."

4. Draft Outlines of an International Code by David Dudley Field (1876)
"passport required. 277. A nation may, in its discretion, give to any of its ... Without such a passport, no private ship is entitled to receive from other ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"The Earl of Lauderdale said, it seemed to him to be assumed, that an order for post-horses was a passport, or else that it could be evidence, in the absence ..."

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