Noun: passport
| Singular | passport |
| Plural | passports |
Sample Sentences
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You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.
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Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed. [1951 November 26, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 728:]
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Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 17, in Crime out of Mind:]
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The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.
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Thus like the ſad preſaging Rauen that tolls / The ſick mans paſſeport in her hollovv beake, / And in the ſhadovv of the ſilent night / Doth ſhake contagion from her ſable vvings; / Vex'd and tormented runnes poore Barabas / VVith fatall curſes tovvards theſe Chriſtians. [c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II, signature D2, recto:]
Nouns inflected like passport
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port. See: French Nouns '
passeport'.