REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of the Philippines mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF THE 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 "Republic of the 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 "Republic of the 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)

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

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)

Holonyms ("Republic of the 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 ("Republic of the 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)