Meanings
nounP.O.W. (plural P.O.W.s or P.O.W.'s)
plural P.O.W.s · plural P.O.W.'s
- abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism 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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