PHILIPPINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philippine mean? 

• PHILIPPINE (noun)
  The noun PHILIPPINE has 1 sense:

1. official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages

  Familiarity information: PHILIPPINE used as a noun is very rare.

• PHILIPPINE (adjective)
  The adjective PHILIPPINE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs

  Familiarity information: PHILIPPINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILIPPINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Filipino; Philippine

Hypernyms ("Philippine" is a kind of...):

Western Malayo-Polynesian (a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Philippine"):

Tagalog (the language of the Tagalog on which Filipino is based)

Cebuan; Cebuano (language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines; its lexicon contributes to the official language of the Philippines)

Derivation:

Philippine (of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs)

• PHILIPPINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Filipino; Philippine

Context example:

our Filipino cook

Pertainym:

Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)

Derivation:

Philippine (official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Asia, comprised of an archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam.

(Philippines, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in the original peoples of Asia, but not China, India, Korea, the Philippine Islands or Vietnam.

(Other Asian, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Philippine Islands.

(Filipino, NCI Thesaurus)

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported the first quake occurred at 7:37 p.m. local time (1137 UTC) on Wednesday.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)