"pass-word" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pass-words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "pass-word (plural pass-words)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "watchword",
          "word": "password being a word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87:",
          "text": "...—the conviction that she had not a creature on whom she could rely—for, besides Pedro's natural stupidity, he was ignorant of the Italian language; and to trust him with the pass-word taught by her father, might risk the safety of many,—...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of password being a word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "password",
          "password"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "admittance",
          "admittance"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "watchword",
          "watchword"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pass-word"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pass-words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "watchword",
          "word": "password being a word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information"
        }
      ],
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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        {
          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87:",
          "text": "...—the conviction that she had not a creature on whom she could rely—for, besides Pedro's natural stupidity, he was ignorant of the Italian language; and to trust him with the pass-word taught by her father, might risk the safety of many,—...",
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        }
      ],
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        "Archaic form of password being a word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword."
      ],
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        [
          "password",
          "password"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "admittance",
          "admittance"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
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          "information",
          "information"
        ],
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          "watchword",
          "watchword"
        ]
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  ],
  "word": "pass-word"
}