PHILIPPINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philippines mean? 

• PHILIPPINES (noun)
  The noun PHILIPPINES has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PHILIPPINES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILIPPINES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Philippines"):

Quezon City (city on Luzon adjoining Manila)

Cebu; Cebu City (an important seaport on the island of Cebu in the Philippines)

Caloocan (a suburb of Manila in southwestern Luzon)

capital of the Philippines; Manila (the capital and largest city of the Philippines; located on southern Luzon)

Meronyms (members of "Philippines"):

Bisayan; Visayan (a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines)

Filipino (a native or inhabitant of the Philippines)

Domain member region:

Amorphophallus campanulatus; Amorphophallus paeonifolius; elephant yam; pungapung; telingo potato (putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber)

Pentagon Gang (a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion)

New People's Army; NPA (a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the Philippines)

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros; have clashed with troops at United States bases)

ABB; Alex Boncayao Brigade; Revolutionary Proletarian Army; RPA-ABB (an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s)

Abu Sayyaf; Bearer of the Sword (a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping)

adobo (a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice)

Manila Bay (a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet)

Holonyms ("Philippines" is a part of...):

Southeast Asia (a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore)

Philippine Islands; Philippines (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)

Holonyms ("Philippines" is a member of...):

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)

Sense 2

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 "Philippines"):

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 "Philippines"):

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

Domain member region:

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)

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)

Holonyms ("Philippines" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) of the Philippines increased the previous death toll to six following the landslide caused by the 5.0 earthquake.

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

A macaque, Macaca fascicularis (M. cynomolgus), found mostly in southeastern Asia, Borneo, and the Philippines.

(Cynomolgus Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

The epidemic form is found primarily in areas in which white (polished) rice is the staple food, as in Japan, China, the Philippines, India, and other countries of southeast Asia.

(Beri Beri, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines masked the full impact of greenhouse gases on accelerating sea level rise, according to a new study.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

The highest mortality rates from asthma were recorded in Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, the Philippines and South Africa.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

A country in the Pacific, comprising a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines and northwest of Papua New Guinea.

(Palau, NCI Thesaurus)

In contrast, deforestation in Latin America, insular South-East Asia (which include Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste) and Madagascar derived low agricultural benefits and high environmental costs.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Denotes a person from any of the islands in the western pacific encompassing the area from the Philippines in the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the south-east and east.

(Micronesian, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries and regions most impacted by changes in MJO behaviour are the Maritime Continent region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, parts of Malaysia, northern Australia, West Pacific, Amazon basin and southwest Africa, where rainfall is increasing, the study says.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)