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• po
  po

  noun

  a chamber pot.
• Po
  Po

  noun

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

  abbreviation

  (in prescriptions) by mouth.
• PO
  PO

  abbreviation

  post office. Also P.O.
• P.O.
  P.O.

  abbreviation

  post office. Also PO

po

¹ American  

[poh] / poʊ /

noun

Australia and New Zealand.

pos plural

1. a chamber pot.

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Po ² American  

[poh] / poʊ /

noun

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

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Po ³ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. polonium.

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p.o. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) by mouth.

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PO ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. post office. Also P.O.

2. Baseball. putout; putouts.

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P.O. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. post office. Also PO

2. parole officer.

3. petty officer.

4. Chiefly British. postal (money) order.

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PO ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Post Office

2. Personnel Officer

3. petty officer

4. Pilot Officer

5. Also: p.o..  postal order

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Po ² British  

symbol

1. polonium

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Po ³ British  

/ 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)

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po ⁴ British  

/ pəʊ /

noun

1. an informal word for chamber pot

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• pos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of po¹

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

Origin of p.o.⁴

From Latin per ōs

Example Sentences

At first Eliot found Mrs. Sen’s anxiety incomprehensible; his mother had a p.o. box in town, and she collected mail so infrequently that once their electricity was cut off for three days.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

P.N., internal nares. p.o., prootic bone. p.p., palato-pterygoid cartilage. psph., parasphenoid bone. pt., pterygoid bone. q., quadrate cartilage. q.j., quadrato-jugal. s.e., sphenethmoid bone. sq., squamosal. t., trabecular part of brain box. t.c., trabecula. th.h., thyrohyal.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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