Prisoner-of-war meaning

A person taken by or surrendering to enemy forces in wartime.
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A member of the regular or irregular armed forces of a nation at war held captive by the enemy.
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A soldier or combatant who is captured by the enemy. Abbreviations POW, PW.

As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.

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Attributive form of prisoner of war, noun.

Prisoner-of-war camp.

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Prisoner-of-war Sentence Examples

  • In 1860 he went to Italy, took part in Garibaldi's expedition to Aspromonte (1862), and was interned as a prisoner of war in Naples.

  • On the surrender of Metz, he was sent as a prisoner of war to Aix-la-Chapelle, whence he returned in time to assist at the capture of Paris from the Commune.

  • He became leader of the Huguenots, but after several years' fighting was taken prisoner of war.

  • During republican agitation at Rome the French general Duphot was killed, a French army advanced on the city, and carried the aged pontiff a prisoner of war to Valence in Dauphine, where he died on the 29th of August 1799.

  • As a prisoner of war Cronje was sent to St Helena, where he remained until released after the conclusion of peace (see TRANSVAAL: History).

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