password
A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
Example
“Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.”
Other meanings
A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; a but nowadays often an string or a .
“A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.”
Related words
- passwordable
- passwordless
- passwordlike
- counter-password
- password child
- password salting
- password wallet
- what is the Wi-Fi password
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “password” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.