philippines

Noun philippines has 2 senses

• philippines(n = noun.location) republic of the philippines - a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946;
is a member of asean, association of southeast asian nations
is a kind of country, land, state
is a part of southeast asia, philippine islands, philippines
has parts: capital of the philippines, manila, caloocan, cebu, cebu city, quezon city

• philippines(n = noun.location) philippine islands - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands;
has parts: cebu, luzon, mindanao, mindoro, philippines, republic of the philippines, bisayas, visayan islands
is a kind of archipelago
is a part of pacific, pacific ocean