Crossword clues for prisoner of war
prisoner of war
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A soldier or combatant who is captured by the enemy. Abbreviations (term: POW), (term: PW).
WordNet
n. a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war [syn: POW]
Wikipedia
A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates to 1660.
Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from enemy combatants still in the field (releasing and repatriating them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for war crimes, exploiting them for their labor, recruiting or even conscripting them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs.
Prisoner of War is a 2002 third-person stealth video game developed by Wide Games and published by Codemasters. It follows the story of Captain Lewis Stone, a downed American pilot who must escape numerous prisoner of war camps and return home.
Prisoner of War is a 1954 American war drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin and Oskar Homolka.
"Prisoner of War" is the third episode of the first season of the TNT science fiction drama Falling Skies, which originally aired June 26, 2011. The episode was written by Fred Golan and directed by Greg Beeman.
The 2nd Mass is joined by Dr. Michael Harris, the only doctor to have discovered how to safely unharness enslaved children. A failed attempt to reclaim Tom's son Ben leaves Hal and his girlfriend Karen at the mercy of the aliens. A Skitter later orders a Mech to kill the remaining kids in front of Hal, then releases Hal to deliver a message: take one, the rest die.
A prisoner of war is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
Prisoner of War may also refer to:
- Prisoner of War (film), 1954 film
- Prisoners of War (TV series), the English-language title of the Hebrew-language 2010 Israeli series Hatufim, on which the 2011 US TV series Homeland was loosely based
- P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, a 1988 arcade game that was ported to the NES console
- Prisoner of War (video game), a 2002 video game for PC, PS2 and Xbox
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, a 1983 British-Japanese film known in many European editions as Furyo, Japanese for prisoner of war
- "Prisoner of War" (Falling Skies), a 2011 episode of Falling Skies science fiction drama
Usage examples of "prisoner of war".
And Mike Rodgers, who had bungled security, escape, judging the character of a loyal coworker, and handling a prisoner of war.
To him he stated that he was a prisoner of war, that he was likely to be exchanged in the next few days, that he wished to be married before his voyage, and that as soon as he could he would acquaint Father Costello with the day and hour, because the ceremony would have to be carried out with very little notice.
As it was, he felt a dry burning in his eyes, a constriction in his throat, while he waited for the priest to come out of the vestry To him he stated that he was a prisoner of war, that he was likely to be exchanged in the next few days, that he wished to be married before his voyage, and that as soon as he could he would acquaint Father Costello with the day and hour, because the ceremony would have to be carried out with very little notice.
Old for his rank, passed over for promotion, partly because he had been a prisoner of war in Spanish hands until that country’.
As first a prisoner of war, then later a political prisoner inside this monolithic, secretive state, he would have more experience with lies, deceit, and treachery then I had ever encountered.
I was taken a prisoner of war, all right and proper, and I've got the right to be exchanged or ransomed back, as soon as may be, according to the law on both sides.
The troops were allowed to leave the place with their arms, ammunition, and personal property, and Mondragon engaged himself to procure the release of Sainte Aldegonde and four other prisoners of rank, or to return and give himself up as a prisoner of war.
He has visited all our prisoner of war camps and seen that they were not in the least like prisoner camps as you imagine them.
One was a prisoner of war and the other sworn to unlimited obedience.