Category:Passport

Pass"port (, n. Etym: [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.