Philippine Islands

Speech parts

1. Philippine Islands - Noun

2. Philippine Islands - Proper noun

Meaning

an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands

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Examples

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. R. Lee Ermey

After taking command of the Philippine Islands in October 1944, Yamashita made several controversial decisions. Source: Internet

After Mendaña's discovery, other Spanish ships on the galleon route between Manila in the Philippine Islands to the west and Acapulco on the western coast of Mexico in the east, "discovered" Wake Island. Source: Internet

In January 1900, Shafter offered the following opinion on the war in the Philippines : "My plan would be to disarm the natives of the Philippine Islands, even if I have to kill half of them to do it. Source: Internet

The act empowered the U.S. President, within two years following independence, to negotiate matters relating to U.S. naval reservations and fueling stations of in the Philippine Islands. Source: Internet

This Spanish naming custom also countered the native Filipino naming custom wherein siblings assumed different surnames, as practised before the Spanish Conquest of the Philippine Islands. Source: Internet

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