Word Meanings - PASSPORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 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

Additional info about word: PASSPORT

port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PASSPORT)

• Admittance
• Introduction
• entrance
• pass
• permit
• passport
• privilege
• acceptance
• welcome
• reception

Related words: (words related to PASSPORT)

• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• PERMITTER
  One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• PERMITTEE
  One to whom a permission or permit is given.
• PRIVILEGE
  See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment
• PRIVILEGED
  Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
• PASSPORT
  port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 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
• PERMITTANCE
  The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.
• WELCOMER
  One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer. Shak.
• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• WELCOMELY
  In a welcome manner.
• RECEPTION
  1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. 2. The state of being received. 3. The act or manner of receiving, esp.
• WELCOME
  welcome guest, from wil-, as a prefix, akin to willa will + cuma a comer, fr. cuman to come; hence, properly, one who comes so as to please another's will; cf. Icel. velkominn welcome, G. willkommen. 1. Received with gladness; admitted willingly
• WELCOMENESS
  The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
• ENTRANCEMENT
  The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.
• ACCEPTANCE
  An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. Note: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty. Mozley & W. Note: In modern law, proposal and acceptance are
• ENTRANCE
  1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into
• WATER PRIVILEGE
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• READMITTANCE
  Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
• DISPRIVILEGE
  To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
• INTRORECEPTION
  The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.
• REENTRANCE
  The act entereing again; re Hooker.
• DISENTRANCE
  To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.
• NONACCEPTANCE
  A neglect or refusal to accept.