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# passport

«passport» in Mova's school dictionary: **An official small book from your country's government…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a passport, passports)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An official small book from your country's government with your photo, name and date of birth, that you show when you travel to other countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#m1)

2) Something that helps you get or reach something: «a passport to success». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and travel, you need a passport to go abroad and must show it at the airport or border; children have their own passports. Safety: keep your passport safe, and don't post photos of it online. Phrases: «passport control», «a valid passport», «renew a passport».

### examples

- You need a passport to fly to another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x1)
- My passport photo looks funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x2)
- We showed our passports at passport control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x3)
- Keep your passport in a safe place on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x4)
- Babies need passports too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x5)
- Hard work is a passport to success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x6)
- He has not shown his passport!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/#x7)

### note

Countable: passports. One word. A passport is an important document — never give it to strangers or share pictures of it online.

### In the corpora

- [Your passport is kept safe and with an adult, because you cannot travel abroad without it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/5/)
- [Keep your passport safe with an adult, because you cannot travel abroad without it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes/15/)
- [You cannot travel to another country without a passport, so keep it safe and with an adult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping/13/)
- [Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/16/)
- [Today Taiwan's 23 million people elect their own president and have their own army, money and passports.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «passport» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passport/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.