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P.O.W.

P.O.W. is the initialism of prisoner of war.

Meaning of prisoner of war

Noun

prisoner of war (plural prisoners of war)

  1. A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
    • As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.
    Synonyms:
    POW, PW

Forms of P.O.W.

pluralP.O.W.s
pluralP.O.W.'s

Phrases with P.O.W.

Questions about P.O.W.

What is P.O.W. the initialism of?
P.O.W. is the initialism of prisoner of war.

Words near P.O.W. in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: P.O.W. (page history and authors); prisoner of war (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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