PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philippine Islands mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Philippine Islands; Philippines

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Philippine Islands"):

Cebu (one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor)

Luzon (the main island of the Philippines)

Mindanao (the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic)

Mindoro (a mountainous island in the central Philippines)

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

Bisayas; Visayan Islands (group of islands in the central Philippines)

Meronyms (members of "Philippine Islands"):

Tagalog (a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila)

Domain member region:

Bataan; Corregidor (the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945)

Leyte; Leyte invasion; Leyte Island (a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese)

Holonyms ("Philippine Islands" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

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)

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)