password

• pass-word (archaic)

From pass +‎ word. The sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/
• (Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːs.wɜːd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpæs.wɜːd/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈpæs.ʋə(r)ɖ/, [pæːs.ʋɜ(ː)(ɾ)ɖ]
• Rhymes: -æswɜː(ɹ)d, -ɑːswɜː(ɹ)d
• Hyphenation: pass‧word

password (plural passwords)

2. (military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.

   Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.

   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     Now, Max, by what combination of circumstances is a rogue to know my password, to be able to forge my signature, to possess himself of my key, and to resemble me personally? And, finally, how is he possibly to determine beforehand whether there is anything in my safe to repay so elaborate a plant?

4. (computing, cryptography) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.

   A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

• (word used to gain admittance): watchword, underword
• (cryptographic key): passcode, keyword; abbreviations: pw, pwd, pword, pass

• (cryptographic key): passkey (coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords)
• (cryptographic key): passphrase, keyphrase (used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces)

• passphrase

password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

1. (computing, transitive) To protect with a password.

• To password protect is the more common expression.

• login
• passphrase
• PIN

First attested in 1983, borrowed from English password.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑːsˌwœːd̥]

password n (singular definite passwordet, plural indefinite password or passwords)

1. (computing) password

• adgangskode, kodeord

Borrowed from English password.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sword/
• Rhymes: -assword

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password m (invariable)

1. (computing) password

   Synonyms: codice, (uncommon) parola d'ordine

Unadapted borrowing from English password.

password f (plural passwords)

1. (Portugal, computing) password (secret string of characters used to access a system)

   Synonyms: palavra-passe, senha

• “password”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “password”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

password m (plural passwords)

1. password

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaswoɾd/ [ˈpas.woɹd̪]
• Rhymes: -aswoɾd
• Syllabification: pass‧word

password (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜏᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of pasword

• “password”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018