Passport word meaning and definition

[noun] 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"
[noun] a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
[noun] any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"

\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.

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