PASSWORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does password mean? 

• PASSWORD (noun)
  The noun PASSWORD has 1 sense:

1. a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group

  Familiarity information: PASSWORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSWORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

countersign; parole; password; watchword; word

Context example:

he forgot the password

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

arcanum; secret (information known only to a special group)

positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance)

 Context examples 

The malware infects the devices by brute forcing their passwords.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

Duties include accepts/rejects membership to an account, assigns and edits access permissions and resets/revokes user passwords.

(Account Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)

The gnat, who was the most crafty, flew into the forest where the enemy was assembled, and hid herself beneath a leaf of the tree where the password was to be announced.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos and so on.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

This strategy may work as a consequence of users' negligence towards password security of stationary devices, which the users do not directly interact with in their everyday life while leaving them exposed to the Internet.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)