- pronunciation:
- paes
port
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
A passport is something you need when you travel to another country. It looks like a small book with pages. You get a passport from the government of your own country. The passport shows your picture, and it tells who you are and where you are from. If you don't have a passport, you cannot go into another country.
Before we could travel to Europe, I had to get my own passport.
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| definition 2: |
Sometimes a passport is like a ticket or a key that lets you do something important that you want to do in your life.
My grandfather's family was very poor and their life was very hard. My dad says that getting an education was my grandfather's passport to an easier life.- similar words:
- key
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| related words: |
license |
Passport comes from French words that mean "pass through the port." One passed through a port to enter or leave a country.