PASSPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passport mean? 

• PASSPORT (noun)
  The noun PASSPORT has 3 senses:

1. any authorization to pass or go somewhere

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

3. any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission

  Familiarity information: PASSPORT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any authorization to pass or go somewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pass; passport

Context example:

the pass to visit had a strict time limit

Hypernyms ("passport" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passport"):

safe-conduct; safeguard (a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("passport" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Meronyms (parts of "passport"):

visa (an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

passport; recommendation

Context example:

his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society

Hypernyms ("passport" is a kind of...):

characteristic (a distinguishing quality)

 Context examples 

For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I do think you might travel to a special spot that requires a passport for entry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On the other hand, a touch of madness, real or assumed, was a passport through doors which were closed to wisdom and to virtue.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! those letters are convenient passports.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Provided with plenty of money and the passport of an old name, I could choose my own society: no circles were closed against me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Wary and careful they must be, with watchful eyes to the right and the left, for this was no man's land, and their only passports were those which hung from their belts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though his looks did not please her, his name was a passport to her goodwill, and she thought with sincere compassion of his approaching disappointment; for, in spite of what she had believed herself to overhear in the pump-room, his behaviour was so incompatible with a knowledge of Isabella's engagement that she could not, upon reflection, imagine him aware of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The past is your passport to success this month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)