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Filipino   Listen
adjective
Filipino  adj.  
1.
Of or relating to the Philippines or its people or customs.
Synonyms: Philippine.
2.
Of or relating to the language of the Philippines.
Synonyms: Tagalog.






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"Filipino" Quotes from Famous Books



... to indicate what they do," spoke Mr. Swift grimly. "They cut off the head of their enemies, like that interesting Filipino tribe. But perhaps they may not get after you. ...
— Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground • Victor Appleton

... and forced himself to relax, his glance slowly traversing the room, lingering on the mosaic of book-spines in the tall cases, the sunlight splashed on the faded pastel colors of the carpet, the soft-tinted autumn landscape outside the French windows, the trophies of Indian and Filipino and German weapons on the walls. He could easily feign relaxation here in the library of "Greyrock," as long as he looked only at these familiar inanimate things and avoided the five people gathered in the room with him, for all ...
— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper

... a mascot goat, and Battery C a Filipino kid, and Battery D a parrot that could swear in five languages, but I guess we were the only battery in the brigade that carried an old lady! Filipino, nothing! But white as yourself and from Oakland, California, and I don't suppose I'd be ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne

... A Filipino, unaware of the terrific figure behind him, had sauntered from the shadows into the path of light, curious, half-blinded by the glare he faced. As he reached the middle of the road the most terrifying of all cries issued from one of ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

... Japanese girls, to Javanese Sarongs, the flame and flash of crimson predominates in the gowns of both men and women. Where an American man would blush to be caught in any sort of a gown with crimson predominating save a necktie, the Japanese gentlemen, the Filipino, the Malay, and the Javanese all wear high colors most of the time. And the women are like splendid flaming bushes of ...
— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger

... official languages - Filipino (based on Tagalog) and English; eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocan, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government



Words linked to "Filipino" :   Visayan, aborigine, Cebuano, Tagalog, Cebuan, aboriginal, Philippine, indigen, indigene, native, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Bisayan, Moro, Philippines



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