POW
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6.5
- noun
- /piː oʊ ˈdʌbəl juː/
:
prisionero de guerra
- By the time of their journey back to Standing Rock, the number of Hunkpapa POWs would increase to 254.
- POW/MIA
- held as a POW
- a POW camp
This is an abandoned POW burial ground.
- This is an abandoned POW burial ground.
- So you don't eat, you don't sleep, you're a POW and A and a jail cell.
- So he gets rolled up and and gets held as a POW in Iraq until the war was over.
- So that's that's the whole story within a story of the German escapee from the POW camps that I met in Lebanon, MO.
- They have a whole bunch of POW like the absolute war criminals in housed at at Bagram.
- Once you get through it, it's like you become APOW like how many PO WS you know, want to go back to POW camp?
Examples
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And two nights before that event, he had gone to the reunion of that POW group.
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On one occasion, a group of POWs went to Kenora for dental care, accompanied by a guard.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is an abandoned POW burial ground.
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Please escort the captain to the POW barracks.
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Kaiser was one of several thousand Germans whose POW experience in Canada forever changed their lives.
Fiction book (1996) -
On April 13th, the boat, which would ultimately transport the most POWs was leaving its home port in St. Louis for the journey South.
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As the men made their way northwest, American POWs were beginning to be brutalized.
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We were about eighty POWs, among them some of my friends and several others from Camp Forrest.
Academic text (2008) -
One train loaded with POWs arrived in Kenora near the Manitoba-Ontario border on a balmy April day.
Fiction book (1996) -
After months of captivity, the former POW shared his harrowing story of survival with the world.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person kept locked because they broke the law or were captured during a war
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3.9
A soldier the enemy captures and holds during a war
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6.8
A person authorities hold for legal or political reasons
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9.0
A person who is held in a camp without trial during a war, often for political reasons
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word POW stands for prisoner of war, a short name made from the first letters of 'prisoner of war'. It was used in wartime to name soldiers who are captured, so a POW is someone held by the enemy during a war.