Usually means: Detained combatant during armed conflict.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word prisoner of war:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. prisoner of war: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prisoner of war: Merriam-Webster
  3. prisoner of war: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prisoner of war: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prisoner of war: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prisoner of war: Vocabulary.com
  7. prisoner of war: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prisoner-of-war, prisoner of war: Wiktionary
  9. prisoner of war: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. prisoner of war: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. prisoner of war: Dictionary.com
  12. Prisoner of War (Falling Skies), Prisoner of War (disambiguation), Prisoner of War (film), Prisoner of War (game), Prisoner of War (video game), Prisoner of War, Prisoner-of-war, Prisoner of war (disambiguation), Prisoner of war: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. prisoner of war: Rhymezone
  14. prisoner of war: FreeDictionary.org
  15. prisoner of war: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prisoner of war: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prisoner of war: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Prisoner-of-war, Prisoner of war: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prisoner of war: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. prisoner of war: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See prisoner_of_wars as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prisoner of war)

noun:  A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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