IOW

I1O1W4

A form of IOW

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

IOW1

proper noun

alternative IoW

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Isle of Wight.
adverbIOW (not comparable)
  1. Internetabbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of in other words.

IoW2

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of IOW (“Isle of Wight”).

    True, Woodstock and the IoW festivals wowed audiences, particularly Hendrix at Woodstock and Dylan at IoW sixty-nine.

    2022, Clive Radford, “Monterey and Cannery Row”, in Desolation Argonauts, Rogue Phoenix Press, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Within the set of ten LEAs this ranges from zero in the IoW, explained no doubt by its pattern of middle schools, to 64 per cent in Sunderland.

    1997, Alison Bullock, Hywel Thomas, Schools at the Centre?: A Study of Decentralisation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 171

    Second, the IoW had a total population of about 100,000, which we reckoned was about right for studying common disorders.

    2014, Michael Rutter, “Establishing Developmental Psychopathology”, in Richard M. Lerner, Anne C. Petersen, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, editors, The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 418, column 2

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APA

IOW. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IOW

MLA

“IOW.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IOW. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “IOW,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IOW.

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