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pov

pov adjective: poor; impoverished; cheap. Also the alternative letter-case form of POV.

Adjective

pov (comparative more pov, superlative most pov)

  1. (Australian, colloquial, slang) Poor; impoverished; cheap.
    • Phantazeum is still in existence, on Chapel Street (the more pov end, not the yuppy end) ...1999 April 28, Gerard, “GAF clothes in Melbourne”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet)
    • Especially considering the most pov Astra is $18,990 and $20k gets you a fully loaded Pulsar...2002 June 2, Marco Spaccavento, “Focus to start at $23k!”, in aus.cars (Usenet)

Noun (1)

pov (plural povs)

  1. (slang) A poor person; a pauper.
    • Well, mayor, it's based on the cash grab, but instead of money, the cans of food are blown around inside the capsule. The pov inside catches as many as he can to feed his family.1997, South Park (animated TV series), "Starvin' Marvin" (episode)

Noun (2) capitalized: POV

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
    • From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face.1993, Richard Price, 3 Screenplays, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 261
    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
    • Ms. Brier specializes in point of view, or P.O.V., videos that confront relatable, often hateable characters, with a subtle sneer, gleefully rubbery body and arch delivery of generational catchphrases like “slay, queen” and “I got you,” often repeated for effect.2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of privately owned vehicle.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.

Noun (3) capitalized: PoV

PoV (plural PoVs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of POV (“point of view”).
    • We are going to define the notion of temporal points of view (TPoV). But we need the help of a conception of points of view (PoV) according to which any point of view can be seen as having the following canonical structure: […] Temporal Points of View (TPoV) are PoV with explicit contents EC*...2015, Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez, Margarita Vázquez Campos, “Temporal Aspects of Points of View”, in Temporal Points of View: Subjective and Objective Aspects, Springer International Publishing...
    • Unfortunately from their PoV, the bottom line was Mags’s and hers alone.2016, Ian Wood, Seasoning

Also used as

pov is also the alternative letter-case form of POV.

pov meaning in Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and Nepali

pov in Bengali

পোভ, পভ, পিওভি

pov in Punjabi

ਪੀ. ਓ. ਵੀ

pov in Odia

ପୋଭ, ପୋଭ୍

pov in Nepali

पोभ

Synonyms of pov

Antonyms

Forms of pov

Adjective
comparativemore pov
superlativemost pov
alternative formpovvo
Noun
pluralpovs
pluralPOVs
pluralPoVs

Origin of pov

Abbreviation of poverty or clipping of impoverished.

Questions about pov

What does pov mean?
Pov means poor; impoverished; cheap.
What is pov in Bengali?
Pov in Bengali is পোভ, পভ, পিওভি. See Pov meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pov?
Pov can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pov in the dictionary

  1. Pouyan
  2. Pouyanne
  3. Pouyannian mimicry
  4. pouzacite
  5. Pouzzner
  6. pov
  7. Považská Bystrica
  8. Poveda
  9. Povedas
  10. poverish
  11. poverished

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pov (page history and authors); POV (page history and authors); PoV (page history and authors); pov (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pov (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pov (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pov (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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