say it: PA-spawrt
passport is a noun meaning "any authorization to pass or go somewhere". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any authorization to pass or go somewhere
“the pass to visit had a strict time limit”
a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
law
any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission
“her pleasant personality is already a recommendation”
“his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for passport come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.