Akademik

Philippines

noun

1. a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946 (Freq. 2)

• Syn: ↑Republic of the Philippines

• Members of this Region:

↑Manila Bay, ↑adobo, ↑Abu Sayyaf, ↑Bearer of the Sword, ↑Alex Boncayao Brigade, ↑ABB, ↑Revolutionary Proletarian Army, ↑RPA-ABB, ↑Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ↑New People's Army, ↑NPA, ↑Pentagon Gang, ↑pungapung, ↑telingo potato, ↑elephant yam, ↑Amorphophallus paeonifolius, ↑Amorphophallus campanulatus

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑country, ↑state, ↑land

• Member Holonyms: ↑Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ↑ASEAN

• Part Holonyms: ↑Southeast Asia, ↑Philippine Islands

• Member Meronyms: ↑Filipino, ↑Visayan, ↑Bisayan

• Part Meronyms: ↑Manila, ↑capital of the Philippines, ↑Caloocan, ↑Cebu, ↑Cebu City, ↑Quezon City

2. an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands

• Syn: ↑Philippine Islands

• Members of this Region: ↑Bataan, ↑Corregidor, ↑Leyte, ↑Leyte Island, ↑Leyte invasion

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑archipelago

• Part Holonyms: ↑Pacific, ↑Pacific Ocean

• Member Meronyms: ↑Tagalog

• Part Meronyms:

↑Cebu, ↑Luzon, ↑Mindanao, ↑Mindoro, ↑Republic of the Philippines, ↑Visayan Islands, ↑Bisayas

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(the) Philippines [Philippines] [ˈfɪlɪpiːnz] [ˈfɪlɪpiːnz] noun plural

a country consisting of a group of islands in South East Asia

see also ↑Filipina, ↑Filipino

Useful english dictionary. 2012.