Definition of Passport

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Passport

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.

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Passport Quotations

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

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

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville

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

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Robert Smith

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
Ben Kingsley

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
John Charles Polanyi

Passport Translations

passport in Danish is pas
passport in Dutch is pas, paspoort
passport in French is passeport
passport in Italian is valico, passaporto
passport in Norwegian is pass
passport in Portuguese is passaporte
passport in Spanish is pasaporte
passport in Swedish is pass

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