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 →

2) Something that helps you get or reach something: «a passport to success». tree →

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 →
• My passport photo looks funny. tree →
• We showed our passports at passport control. tree →
• Keep your passport in a safe place on holiday. tree →
• Babies need passports too. tree →
• Hard work is a passport to success. tree →
• He has not shown his passport!’ tree →

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.
• Keep your passport safe with an adult, because you cannot travel abroad without it.
• You cannot travel to another country without a passport, so keep it safe and with an adult.
• Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.
• Today Taiwan's 23 million people elect their own president and have their own army, money and passports.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «passport» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.