English > Republic of the Philippines: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946. |
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| Synonym | Philippines |
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| Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Member of | Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN | 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 |
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| Members | Filipino | A native or inhabitant of the Philippines |
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| Visayan, Bisayan | A member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines |
| Part of | Philippines, Philippine Islands | An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands |
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| Southeast Asia | A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore |
| Parts | Caloocan | A suburb of Manila in southwestern Luzon |
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| Cebu, Cebu City | An important seaport on the island of Cebu in the Philippines |
| Manila, capital of the Philippines | The capital and largest city of the Philippines |
| Quezon City | city on Luzon adjoining Manila |
| Region of | 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 |
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| Alex Boncayao Brigade, ABB, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB | An urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines |
| Manila Bay | A naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898) |
| Moro Islamic Liberation Front | A terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros |
| New People's Army, NPA | A terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines |
| 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 |
| adobo | A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish |
| pungapung, telingo potato, elephant yam, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, Amorphophallus campanulatus | putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber |
| Spanish | Filipinas, Philippines, República de las Filipinas |
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| Catalan | Filipines, Les Filipines |
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