passport

Speech parts

1. passport - Noun

2. passport - Verb

Meaning

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.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pass recommendation travel document travel permit avenue order visa sesame open sesame protection route card path document entry
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Antonyms

problem prevention opposition bar ban rejection
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Hypernyms

instrument characteristic permission legal document official document legal instrument

Hyponyms

safeguard safe-conduct

Phrases with the word

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Anagrams

portpass

Examples

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. Anton Chekhov

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" Grace Hopper

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. Ani DiFranco

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. Arthur Schopenhauer

Hello is your passport. Haitian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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