Filipino
/ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnəʊ
/(also Pilipino)
adjective
Relating to the Philippines, the Filipinos, or their language.Later, journalists tracked him down to the Philippines, but the Filipino authorities were strangely unable to find him....
- However, the US ‘liberators’ of the Philippines would not allow Filipino troops to enter Manila, and refused to let them take part in the formal Spanish surrender.
- Thousands of US soldiers recently returned from the Philippines after training Filipino soldiers.
noun (plural Filipinos)
1A native or inhabitant of the Philippines, or a person of Filipino descent.And peace is something Filipinos in the southern Philippines have been waiting a long, long time for....
- Catholic priests immediately began to convert the native Filipinos to Catholicism.
- There are many Filipinos teaching in Thai schools around the nation.
2 [mass noun] The national language of the Philippines, a standardized form of Tagalog.The official languages are Filipino, which is based on Tagalog with words from other native languages, and English....
- Among the immigrant population, English, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and Filipino are spoken.
- The playwrights quote texts in Filipino, the language of nationalism in the Philippines.
Origin
Spanish, from las Islas Filipinas 'the Philippine Islands'.
Rhymes
- before one can say Jack Robinson
- before one knows where one is (or before one knows it)
- before (or after) the fact
- before (or in front of or under) one's (very) eyes
- before (or since) the rinderpest
- beforesaid
- before-tax
- before the mast
- before the wind
- before time
- beforetimes
- before you can say knife
- before–after
- be for it
- be for (or all for) the best
- be for the high jump
- befoul
- be fresh out of
- befriend
- be frightened of one's shadow
- be frightened (or scared) out of one's wits
- befuddle
- befuddlement
- be full bottle on
- be full of it