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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Passport \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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

passport
     n 1: any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to
          visit had a strict time limit" [syn: {pass}]
     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; "her
        pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his
        wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of
        society" [syn: {recommendation}]