- an official document that identifies you as a citizen of a particular country, and that you may have to show when you enter or leave a country
- a valid passport
- a fake passport
- a South African passport
- to issue/confiscate a passport
- I was stopped as I went through passport control (= where passports are checked).
- EU passport holders
- a passport photo
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by aira1, Law and justicea1, Holidaysa1- I usually travel on my Irish passport.
- The Embassy made him surrender his passport.
- The European Parliament voted to adopt biometric passports.
- You have to show your passport at the border.
- I need to renew my passport.
- a full British passport
- the UK Passport Agency
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- valid
- full
- fake
- …
- apply for
- renew
- get
- …
- be valid
- expire
- photo
- photograph
- picture
- …
- passport into
- passport to
- passport to something a thing that makes something possible or enables you to achieve something synonym key
- The only passport to success is hard work.
- The gold medal is his passport into professional boxing.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- valid
- full
- fake
- …
- apply for
- renew
- get
- …
- be valid
- expire
- photo
- photograph
- picture
- …
- passport into
- passport to
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting authorization to depart from a port): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass’ + port ‘seaport’.
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