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IOW

IOW is the initialism of Isle of Wight.

IOW is the initialism of in other words.

Meaning of Isle of Wight

Proper noun

the Isle of Wight

  1. An island, county, and unitary authority off the south coast of England, in the English Channel opposite Southampton.
  2. An unincorporated community, the county seat of the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States.
    Synonyms:
    IOW, I.W., Vectis

Meaning of in other words

Prepositional phrase

  1. (conjunctive, idiomatic) Stated or interpreted another way; phrased differently Used to introduce an explanation, simplification, or clarification.
    • He has another appointment on Thursday. In other words, I don't think he'll be attending your gathering.
    Synonyms:
    to put it another way, put differently, that is to say, i.e.

Proper noun capitalized: IoW

IoW

  1. Alternative letter-case form of IOW (“Isle of Wight”).
    • Within the set of ten LEAs this ranges from zero in the IoW, explained no doubt by its pattern of middle schools, to 64 per cent in Sunderland.1997, Alison Bullock, Hywel Thomas, Schools at the Centre?: A Study of Decentralisation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 171
    • Second, the IoW had a total population of about 100,000, which we reckoned was about right for studying common disorders.2014, Michael Rutter, “Establishing Developmental Psychopathology”, in Richard M. Lerner, Anne C. Petersen, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, editors, The Developmental Science of...

Forms of IOW

alternative formIoW

Questions about IOW

What is IOW the initialism of?
IOW is the initialism of Isle of Wight.
What part of speech is IOW?
IOW is a proper noun.

Words near IOW in the dictionary

  1. Iouliana
  2. IOUs
  3. ioversol
  4. Iovino
  5. Iovinos
  6. IOW
  7. Iowa
  8. Iowa Citian
  9. Iowa Citians
  10. Iowa City
  11. Iowa County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IOW (page history and authors); IoW (page history and authors); Isle of Wight (page history and authors); in other words (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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