Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

philippines

UK/ˈfɪl.ɪ.piːnz/US/ˈfɪl.ə.piːnz/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,666 of 15,258mostly written

The Philippines is the Pacific island country of Manila and white beaches. Live in the Philippines, fly to the Philippines, the northern Philippines.

It is an archipelago of over seven thousand islands, and takes the definite article and a singular verb: the Philippines is, not are. Spain ruled it for three centuries and the United States for forty years, and both left marks on the language.

See File history below for details. · Public domain

Definitions of philippines

  1. 1nounphilippinesA Pacific island country.B1+

    “Manila, the capital of the Philippines, lies on the island of Luzon.”

philippines is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₁éḱwos

  2. Spanish

    Filipinas

  3. French

    Philippines

  4. English

    Philippines

  5. English, today

    philippines

Philippines See Name of the Philippines in Wikipedia for a complete etymology. French Philippines, originally from Spanish Filipinas, which was from Felipe. by surface analysis, Philip + -ine + -s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Countries & Flags

Practise this word