Meaning

3 senses
  1. A string representing an encoded piece of text.

    Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.

  2. A word or phrase (or by extension a concept) used to make a (concealed) reference to another word or concept.

  3. A type of crossword puzzle where the letters of the alphabet are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From code + word.

From code + word.

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Forms

plural: codewords
Singularcodeword
Pluralcodewords

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
dogwhistle

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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