PASSER (passer)

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Irregular inflected form: passer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Passer mean? 

• PASSER (noun)
  The noun PASSER has 5 senses:

1. a person who passes by casually or by chance

2. a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group

3. a student who passes an examination

4. (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass

5. type genus of the Passeridae

  Familiarity information: PASSER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who passes by casually or by chance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

passer; passer-by; passerby

Hypernyms ("passer" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

Derivation:

pass (move past)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("passer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A student who passes an examination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("passer" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

examinee; testee (someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination))

Derivation:

pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

forward passer; passer

Hypernyms ("passer" is a kind of...):

ball carrier; runner ((football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play)

Domain category:

football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)

Derivation:

pass (throw (a ball) to another player)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Type genus of the Passeridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Passer; Passer

Hypernyms ("Passer" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Passer"):

English sparrow; house sparrow; Passer domesticus (small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe)

Passer montanus; tree sparrow (Eurasian sparrow smaller than the house sparrow)

Holonyms ("Passer" is a member of...):

family Passeridae; Passeridae (true sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds)

 Context examples 

Colonel Wallis declined sitting down again, and Mr Elliot was invited by Elizabeth and Miss Carteret, in a manner not to be refused, to sit between them; and by some other removals, and a little scheming of her own, Anne was enabled to place herself much nearer the end of the bench than she had been before, much more within reach of a passer-by.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)