password

Etymology

 * the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.

Noun

 * 1)   A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
 * 2)   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  but nowadays often an  string or a.
 * 1)   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  but nowadays often an  string or a.

Synonyms

 * , ; abbreviations:, , ,
 * , ; abbreviations:, , ,

Translations

 * Afrikaans: wagwoord
 * Albanian: fjalëkalim,
 * Arabic: كَلِمَةُ سِرّ
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܸܠܲܬ ܦܣܵܣܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani: parol
 * Belarusian: паро́ль
 * Bengali: পাসওয়ার্ড
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kodeord, løsen, feltråb
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: salasõna, parool
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: contrasinal
 * Georgian: პაროლი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: σύνθημα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पासवर्ड
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lykilorð
 * Indonesian: kata sandi
 * Irish: focal faire, pasfhocal
 * Italian:, parola chiave
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: құпиясөз
 * Khmer: ការពាក្យសម្ងាត់, ពាក្យទាក់ទងគ្នា, ពាក្យសំគាល់, ពាក្យសំងាត់
 * Korean:, 군호(軍號) , 패스워드, , 열쇠글
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: parole
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: јавка, лозинка, паро́ла
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kupu karanga, kupu whakahipa, kupuhipa, kupuuru
 * Middle English: wacche word
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: нууц үг
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: passord
 * Old English: lēafnesword
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, palavra-passe
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: पारणशब्द
 * Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ло̀зӣнка, ге̏сло
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: калимаи убур, парол, гузарвожа
 * Tatar: пароль
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: གསང་ཚིག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: parol
 * Ukrainian:, паро́ля, га́сло
 * Urdu: پاسورڈ,, پار لفظ, ⁧شناختی لفظ⁩, ⁧خفیہ لفظ⁩, ⁧گزر لفظ⁩, ⁧ کلمۂ شناخت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: mật khẩu
 * West Frisian: wachtwurd


 * Afrikaans: wagwoord
 * Albanian: fjalëkalim
 * Arabic: كَلِمَةُ مُرُور, كَلِمَةُ سِرّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: parol
 * Basque: pasahitza
 * Belarusian: паро́ль
 * Bengali: পাসওয়ার্ড
 * Breton: ger-tremen
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kodeord, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pasvorto
 * Estonian: salasõna, parool
 * Faroese: loyniorð
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: contrasinal
 * Georgian: პაროლი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Greenlandic: isissutissaq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पासवर्ड
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lykilorð, leyniorð, aðgangsorð
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: kata sandi,
 * Irish: focal faire, pasfhocal
 * Italian: parola chiave,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: құпиясөз
 * Korean:, , 통과암호(通過暗號)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: parole
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Passwuert
 * Macedonian: јавка, лозинка, паро́ла
 * Malagasy: tenimiafina
 * Malay:
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: пароль
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: нууц үг,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: passord
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, palavra-passe, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јавка, ло̀зӣнка, ге̏сло, за́по̄рка, паро́ла
 * Roman: javka,, , ,
 * Sanskrit: पारणशब्द
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, palabra clave
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: password
 * Tajik: калимаи убур, парол, гузарвожа
 * Tatar: серсүз
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གསང་ཚིག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: parol
 * Ukrainian:, паро́ля, га́сло
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: mật khẩu
 * Welsh: cyfrinair
 * West Frisian: wachtwurd

Verb

 * 1)  To protect with a password.

Usage notes

 * To is the more common expression.

Etymology
First attested in 1983, borrowed from.

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   secret string of characters used to access a system