prisoner of war camp
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈprɪzənər əv wɔr kæmp/
:
campo de prisioneros de guerra
- Carpenter explains that Donald Pleasence was a World War II pilot in the Royal Air Force who was shot down, held, and tortured in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
- Japanese prisoner of war camp
- German prisoner of war camp
- escape from a prisoner of war camp
Examples
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After spending a year and a half in a prisoner of war camp, he knew he was being liberated when he saw our flag.
Academic text (2005) -
Captured at the end of the war by the Russians in Manchuria, he died in 1956 in a Siberian prisoner-of-war camp.
Blog text (12) -
This appears to be some kind of prisoner of war camp, probably from World War II.
Blog text (16) -
But he was a war hero and he had been in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam for five years.
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When they got captured by the Japs, they ended up in some prisoner of war camp in Thailand.
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Noelting said he received surprisingly kind treatment at the hands of his American captors in a prisoner of war camp.
Blog text (18) -
Furthermore, the conditions of prisoner-of-war camps as mandated by the Geneva Convention are consistent with a nonpunitive purpose.
Academic text (2005) -
Mr. Al-Bahadli, an Iraqi-American who said he had been in a prisoner of war camp under Saddam Hussein, said the voting process was undemocratic.
Blog text (22) -
At the end of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937), a company of German soldiers trains their rifles on a pair of French officers who have recently escaped from a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Academic text (1993) -
The soldiers were held for multiple years in a prisoner of war camp during the conflict.
Synonyms
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5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
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7.6
A place where people are held under guard during war or for political reasons
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8.3
A guarded camp where prisoners are kept in harsh conditions
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4.3
A camp that holds soldiers captured during a war
How Restrictive
- Specialized
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7.9
∞
1.0
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7.6
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3.2
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'prisoner of war' denotes someone captured in a war (prisoner + of + war) and adding 'camp' yields a place where such prisoners are kept. This is a regular English noun phrase pattern and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Prisoner of war camp comes from the simple idea of an army camp where prisoners taken in war were kept behind guards and fences. So, it means a place where soldiers are 'held' after being 'captured' in a war.