Meaning of PASSPORT
| Pronunciation: | | 'paspowrt
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
- [n] a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
- [n] any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | pass, recommendation |
| |
| | See Also: | | characteristic, instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document, permission, safe-conduct, safeguard, visa | |
| Products Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | Passport
Passport more details ... |
| |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \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.
|
| |
| Dream Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | Seeing a passport in your dream means your identity and your ability to traverse various situations. You may going through a period of finding yourself and discovering who you are.
Dreaming that you lose your passport indicates that are are trying to find yourself and get a sense of who you are. Alternatively, you may feel that opportunities are being close off to you. |
| |
|
|