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P.O.U.M.

P.O.U.M. is the alternative form of POUM.

Meaning of POUM

Proper noun

POUM

  1. (historical) Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.
    • We had got to defend the P.O.U.M. buildings if they were attacked, but the P.O.U.M. leaders had sent instructions that we were to stand on the defensive and not open fire if we could possibly avoid it.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Questions about P.O.U.M.

What is P.O.U.M. the alternative form of?
P.O.U.M. is the alternative form of POUM.

Words near P.O.U.M. in the dictionary

  1. P.O.'d
  2. p.o.'ed
  3. p.o.ed
  4. P.O.I.
  5. P.O.I.s
  6. P.O.U.M.
  7. p.o.v.
  8. P.O.W.
  9. P.O.W. camp
  10. P.O.W. camps
  11. p.p.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: P.O.U.M. (page history and authors); POUM (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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