A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

(now obsolete or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". / (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). / From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).

(physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.

A minister or priest. / A prophet. / Any godly man.

A worldly or sophisticated man, one well versed in the ways and dealings of humankind.

(dated) A literary man; a scholar or author.

(military, archaic except humorous) A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.

(idiomatic) A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.

plural of weapon of mass destruction

Alternative form of man-of-war