Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun philippines

2 senses of philippines

Sense 1
Philippines, Republic of the Philippines -- (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")

Sense 2
Philippines, Philippine Islands -- (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)
       INSTANCE OF=> archipelago -- (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun philippine

1 sense of philippine

Sense 1
Philippine, Filipino -- (official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages)
       => Western Malayo-Polynesian -- (a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)