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
• Member Holonyms: ↑Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ↑ASEAN
• Part Holonyms: ↑Southeast Asia, ↑Philippine Islands
• 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:
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a country consisting of a group of islands in South East Asia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.