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Noun Concept
Categories: Imprisonment and detention, 17th-century neologisms, Prisoners of war, Articles with short description, Warfare
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prisoner of war  POW  PW  prisoners-of-war  prisoners of war
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A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war WordNet 3.0
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A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A prisoner of war is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Wikipedia
"prisoner of war", a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Person who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict Wikidata
A combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. OmegaWiki
A soldier or combatant who is captured by the enemy. Abbreviations POW, PW. Wiktionary
Soldier or combatant captured by the enemy. Wiktionary (translation)
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As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors. Wiktionary
IS A
prisoner
role
community sentence
casualty
legal status
HAS KIND
Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
Soviet prisoners of war in Finland
laeti
Prisoners of war in World War II
prisoners in the American Revolutionary War
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Józef Grześkowiak
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sytin Military Encyclopedia
FACET OF
captivity
MAIN REGULATORY TEXT
Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
captivity
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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prisoner of war, POW
Wikipedia
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prisoner of war
Wikidata
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prisoner of war
Wiktionary
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prisoner of war
OmegaWiki
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PoW, POW, prisoner of war, PW
Wikipedia Redirections
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Captured soldier, Enemy Prisoner of War, Enemy prisoner of war, Enemy Prisoners of War, P.O.W, P.O.W., POW, POW status, POWs, POWs in World War II, prisoner-of-war, Prisoner-of-war mail, Prisoner of War, Prisoner of war censorship, prisoners-of-war, Prisoners-of war, prisoners of war, Prisoners of war,, Surrendered soldier, Treatment Of An Enemy, Treatment of an enemy, war captivity, war prisoner, war prisoners, World War II prisoners of war
Wikidata Alias
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enemy prisoner of war, EPW, P/W, POW, PsW, PW, WP

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