pow
part of speech
interjection (pow!); noun (POW, POWs — abbreviation); noun (a pow — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A word for the sound of a punch, a bang or a small explosion, used in comics and cartoons: «Pow! Biff! Bang!» tree →
2) (POW, abbreviation) A prisoner of war: a soldier captured and held by the enemy during a war. tree →
3) (informal) A word to show something sudden and exciting happened: «And then, pow, the lights went out.» tree →
sense in the lessons
In comics it is a sound word (onomatopoeia) that makes action feel loud. In history lessons POW camps held captured soldiers in the World Wars. Phrases: «pow!», «POW camp», «a former POW».
examples
- In the comic, the hero's fist went «Pow!» tree →
- Write some sound words like «pow», «crash» and «boom». tree →
- My great-grandad was a POW in the Second World War. tree →
- The POWs were sent home when the war ended. tree →
- We were walking along and, pow, it started pouring with rain. tree →
- The fireworks went pow, pow, pow over the river. tree →
- Den he draw back en come down on de tree--pow! tree →
note
As a sound word it is often written in capitals with an exclamation mark: POW! As the abbreviation it is written POW (plural POWs) and read as letters, P-O-W. Pow is an onomatopoeia, a word that sounds like what it means.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.