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p.o.v.

p.o.v. is the alternative form of POV.

Meaning of POV

Noun

POV (plural POVs)

  1. The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint.
    • By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.1988, Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 308
    Synonyms:
    viewpoint
  2. (broadly) A discourse marker signalling "imagine, if you will, being in the situation that this text, photo, or video depicts", even in cases where third-person viewpoint exists; compare also fourth wall joke.
    • I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how...2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan
    Synonyms:
    viewpoint
  3. (physically) The vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point.
    • POV videos

See all 5 meanings of pov

Noun capitalized: P.O.V.

P.O.V.

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of POV (“point of view”).
    • As she climbs up, a subjective tracking shot from her P.O.V. gradually reveals a sea of faces staring at her from the gallery.1971, Take One
    • From their P.O.V. we see the long, high hill with the single, giant oak tree.1973, Eugene Benson, editor, Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media, Methuen, →ISBN, page 136

Questions about p.o.v.

What is p.o.v. the alternative form of?
P.o.v. is the alternative form of POV.
What part of speech is p.o.v.?
P.o.v. is a noun.

Words near p.o.v. in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p.o.v. (page history and authors); P.O.V. (page history and authors); POV (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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