prisoner of war
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of French prisonnier de guerre, prisonier de guerre (obsolete).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪz.(ə).nə əv ˈwɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪz.(ə).nɚ əv ˈwoɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: pri‧son‧er of war
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Noun[edit]
prisoner of war (plural prisoners of war)
- A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. [from early 17th c.]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
combatant or soldier captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict
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References[edit]
- ^ “prisoner of war, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2022; “prisoner of war, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading[edit]
- prisoner of war on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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