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Po
1[ poh ]
noun
- a river in Italy, flowing E from the Alps in the NW to the Adriatic. 418 miles (669 km) long.
Po
2po
3[ poh ]
noun
- a chamber pot.
p.o.
4abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) by mouth.
PO
5abbreviation for
- post office. Also P.O.
- Baseball. putout; putouts.
P.O.
6abbreviation for
- post office. Also PO
- parole officer.
- Chiefly British. postal (money) order.
PO
1abbreviation for
- Post Office
- Personnel Officer
- petty officer
- Pilot Officer
- Alsop.o. postal order
po
2/ pəʊ /
noun
- an informal word for chamber pot
Po
3/ pəʊ /
noun
- 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) Latin namePadus
Po
4the chemical symbol for
- polonium
Word History and Origins
Origin of Po1
Origin of Po2
Word History and Origins
Origin of Po1
Example Sentences
Asked if he knew the names of the newborn quadruplets, Merritt recalled two: gi—a karate outfit—and po—a chamber pot.
It was completely wrong because it was all about family values and he was so po-faced and serious.
The Wen Wei Po article contains a nugget that tells us why Beijing wanted to get back at the regime in Pyongyang.
What is intriguing with this dog-bites-man story, however, is that it started with Wen Wei Po.
The po-boy traces its roots back to the New Orleans streetcar labor union strike in 1929.
Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.
To be able to repeat great po-ems at will, is to have a treasure you can allus carry with you while your voice lasts.
For instance, 218 were deported to the fever-stricken colony of Fernando Po, and only 94 of them came out alive.
As soon as he was finally liberated, Po called a meeting of his fellow-prisoners.
Up came Po and some eight other chiefs, squatted in a big circle around the old dining-room floor, now the smoking-room.
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