BW

See also: bw, .bw, b/w, bw., and Bw.

Translingual

Symbol

BW

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Botswana.
    Synonym: BWA (alpha-3)

English

Noun

BW (countable and uncountable, plural BWs)

  1. Initialism of bench warrant.
  2. Initialism of black woman.
  3. Initialism of bearing wall.
  4. (uncountable) Initialism of biological warfare.
    • 1987 May 9, Kim Westheimer, “NY Heats Up for AIDS Demos”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
      They believe that the AIDS virus, rather than being a product of U.S. BW research, was engineered by Soviet-instigated cancer research experiments and then spread with Soviet complicity to attack the U.S. population.

Proper noun

BW

  1. Initialism of Baden-Württemberg, a federal state of Germany.
  2. (fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black and White.

Interjection

BW

  1. Initialism of best wishes.

Anagrams

German

Noun

BW f (genitive BW, no plural)

  1. initialism of Baumwolle

Noun

BW n (genitive BWs, plural BW)

  1. (linguistics) initialism of Bestimmungswort
    Antonym: GW
  2. (trains) initialism of Bahnbetriebswerk
    Synonym: Bw

Proper noun

BW f (proper noun, genitive BW)

  1. initialism of Bundeswehr

Proper noun

BW n (proper noun, strong, genitive BWs)

  1. initialism of Baden-Württemberg
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