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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

P.O.W. en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of prisoner of war.
    • Gaston Huet, the proprietor, whose story is recounted in “Wine and War,” had returned after five years in a German P.O.W. camp. He was in a gravely weakened condition but was able to make the ’45, a great vintage in France. 2022 October 6, Eric Asimov, “Echoes of a World War in Wines From the Early 1940s”, in The New York Times:

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P.O.W.'s Number=Plur lexicographic
P.O.W.s Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

PoW · POW