passer vs student

passer and student both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
passer	Yes	No	No	No
student	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, student is a hypernym of passer; that is, student is a word with a broader meaning than passer:

Other hypernyms of passer include educatee, pupil, examinee, testee.

passer (noun)	student (noun)
(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass	a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
a person who passes by casually or by chance	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
a student who passes an examination
a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group