Po

¹

[poh]

noun

1. a river in Italy, flowing E from the Alps in the NW to the Adriatic. 418 miles (669 km) long.

Po

²

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. polonium.

po

³

[poh]

noun

Australia and New Zealand.

plural

pos 

1. a chamber pot.

p.o.

⁴

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) by mouth.

PO

⁵

abbreviation

1. post office. Also P.O.

2. Baseball.,  putout; putouts.

P.O.

⁶

abbreviation

1. post office. Also PO

2. parole officer.

3. petty officer.

4. Chiefly British.,  postal (money) order.

PO

¹

abbreviation

1. Post Office

2. Personnel Officer

3. petty officer

4. Pilot Officer

5. Also: p.o.. postal order

Po

²

symbol

1. polonium

Po

³

/ pəʊ /

noun

1. Latin name: Padus. a river in N Italy, rising in the Cottian Alps and flowing northeast to Turin, then east to the Adriatic: the longest river in Italy. Length: 652 km (405 miles)

po

⁴

/ pəʊ /

noun

1. an informal word for chamber pot

Word History and Origins

Origin of PO¹

1875–80; probably < French pot ( de chambre ) chamber pot

Origin of PO²

From Latin per ōs

Word History and Origins

Origin of PO¹

C19: from _pot ¹

Example Sentences

On Sunday, thousands of people had gathered outside the charred buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district to lay flowers and leave mementos and messages such as “rest in peace” and “Hong Kong be strong.”

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Seven of eight tower blocks in a housing in the northerly Tai Po district rapidly went up in flames on Wednesday.

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More than 1,000 people from across the Chinese city flocked to the housing complex in Hong Kong's northern Tai Po district to pay respects on Sunday, forming huge queues, an AFP reporter saw.

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A further 79 people have been injured in the city's deadliest blaze in more than 70 years, which occurred in the northerly suburb of Tai Po, while dozens remain missing.

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This is Hong Kong's deadliest fire in at least 63 years - already having surpassed the toll of the August 1962 inferno in the Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, which killed 44 people and displaced hundreds.

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