Associations to the word «Philippines»

Pictures for the word «Philippines»

Wiktionary

PHILIPPINES, proper noun. The Republic of the Philippines, a Southeast Asian country comprised of over seven thousand islands in the Pacific Ocean, composed of the Philippine archipelago.
PHILIPPINES, proper noun. The Philippine Islands, an archipelago in Southeast Asia, that forms the basis of the Philippine republic.

Dictionary definition

PHILIPPINES, noun. A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946.
PHILIPPINES, noun. An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King