Pov
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of point of view.; The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint.
"By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov."
- 2 A poor person; a pauper. slang
"Well, mayor, it's based on the cash grab, but instead of money, the cans of food are blown around inside the capsule. The pov inside catches as many as he can to feed his family."
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of POV (“point of view”). alt-of
- 4 Alternative form of POV (“point of view”). alt-of, alternative
"We are going to define the notion of temporal points of view (TPoV). But we need the help of a conception of points of view (PoV) according to which any point of view can be seen as having the following canonical structure: […] Temporal Points of View (TPoV) are PoV with explicit contents EC*, either non-CC or CC, identifying certain differences in some explicit non-CC, let us call them EC, as changes in time, or permanencies in time, with respect to distinct positions in an A-series (past, present and future)."
- 5 Initialism of point of view.; The vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point.
"POV videos"
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- 6 Initialism of privately owned vehicle. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 7 Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 Poor; impoverished; cheap. Australian, colloquial, slang
"Phantazeum is still in existence, on Chapel Street (the more pov end, not the yuppy end) ..."
- 1 Point-of-view framing used in captions and edits. slang, social-media, 2020s
"POV: you finally submit the assignment."
Example
More examples"POV: you finally submit the assignment."
Etymology
Abbreviation of poverty or clipping of impoverished.
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