pov

comparative more pov · superlative most pov · alternative povvo

1. AustraliancolloquialslangPoor; impoverished; cheap.

   Phantazeum is still in existence, on Chapel Street (the more pov end, not the yuppy end) ...

   1999 April 28, Gerard, “GAF clothes in Melbourne”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet)

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   Especially considering the most pov Astra is $18,990 and $20k gets you a fully loaded Pulsar...

   2002 June 2, Marco Spaccavento, “Focus to start at $23k!”, in aus.cars (Usenet)

plural povs · alternative povvo

1. slangA poor person; a pauper.

   Well, mayor, it's based on the cash grab, but instead of money, the cans of food are blown around inside the capsule. The pov inside catches as many as he can to feed his family.

   1997, South Park (animated TV series), "Starvin' Marvin" (episode)

plural povs

1. Alternative letter-case form of POV (“point of view”).

plural POVs

1. Initialism of point of view.
   1. The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint.

      From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face.

      1993, Richard Price, 3 Screenplays, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 261

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      By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.

      1988, Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 308

      When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.

      1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259

      A female point-of-view (pov) character is not necessarily written from the perspective of a female gaze. […] A pov character is a character through whose eyes and perspective we follow the action of the story.

      2015, Kate Elliott, The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, page 344

      The film takes us immediately to Oscar’s pov, complete with momentary ‘blackouts’ as he blinks. […] Soon, still from Oscar’s pov, he begins lighting up a form of hallucinatory drug, and after a seemingly interminable number of attempts, begins to achieve the high he was seeking.

      2022, Peter C. Pugsley, Ben McCann, The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN

      Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov?

      2022, Nigel Hamilton, “The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography”, in Hans Renders, David Veltman, editors, Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography, Brill, →ISBN, part I (Reflections on Theory and Biography), page 39

      Synonyms: viewpoint · Antonyms: NPOV, point-of-viewlessness, eticness

   2. broadlyA discourse marker signalling "imagine, if you will, being in the situation that this text, photo, or video depicts", even in cases where third-person viewpoint exists; compare also fourth wall joke.

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      I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?

      2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2026

      Synonyms: viewpoint · Antonyms: NPOV, point-of-viewlessness, eticness

   3. physicallyThe vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point.

      POV videos

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      Ms. Brier specializes in point of view, or P.O.V., videos that confront relatable, often hateable characters, with a subtle sneer, gleefully rubbery body and arch delivery of generational catchphrases like “slay, queen” and “I got you,” often repeated for effect.

      2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023

      The earliest discovered dwerking video was shared by a TikToker named @mojothewzzrd back in May. Like many dwerking videos, this original video has an unserious tone, given away by its POV caption.

      2025 July 8, Know Your Meme

2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of privately owned vehicle.
3. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.

plural PoVs

1. alternativeAlternative form of POV (“point of view”).

   Unfortunately from their PoV, the bottom line was Mags’s and hers alone.

   2016, Ian Wood, Seasoning

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   We are going to define the notion of temporal points of view (TPoV). But we need the help of a conception of points of view (PoV) according to which any point of view can be seen as having the following canonical structure: […] Temporal Points of View (TPoV) are PoV with explicit contents EC*, either non-CC or CC, identifying certain differences in some explicit non-CC, let us call them EC, as changes in time, or permanencies in time, with respect to distinct positions in an A-series (past, present and future).

   2015, Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez, Margarita Vázquez Campos, “Temporal Aspects of Points of View”, in Temporal Points of View: Subjective and Objective Aspects, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →ISBN, pages 131–132

   On the other hand, as Hautamäki points out, “a PoV selects a set of possible worlds, namely, those worlds which have a structure or features presupposed by the PoV. In these worlds, the PoV is satisfied” (Hautamäki 1983b: 226).

   2018, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives: Points of View as Access, Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 53

   It shows us the power of thinking from their PoV in an informed manner, and tackling the divide with empathy, curiosity and a good faith belief that these kids must have some reason for acting the way they do.

   2020, Neerja Singh, quoting Aqseer Sodhi, No Time to Be Young: 30 Insights into Generational Empathy from the Seenager, Senior Teenager, Notion Press, →ISBN