Associations to the word «Zamboanga»

Wiktionary

ZAMBOANGA, proper noun. A short-lived revolutionary republic, founded after the collapse of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, existing between May and November 1899.
ZAMBOANGA, proper noun. A former province of the Philippines.
ZAMBOANGA CHAVACANO, proper noun. A Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats