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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
Synonyms:
Philippine Islands; Philippines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Philippine Islands"):
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 "Philippine Islands"):
Tagalog (a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila)
Domain member region:
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)
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)
Holonyms ("Philippine Islands" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
