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noun

Filipino n. (pl. filipinos)

A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood. "Then there are Filipinos, "children of the country," they are called, who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood."

The official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog. It draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages.

Synonyms: Philippine.

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Etymology of 'Filipino'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Filipino" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mateo, my Filipino servant, was helping me sort over specimens one day under the thatched roof of a shed which I had hired to use for such work while I was on the island of Culion, when I was startled to see him suddenly drop the bird skin he had been working on, and fall upon his ...

— Anting-Anting Stories - And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos • Sargent Kayme

... Fort San Antonio Abad, showing the Effect of the Fire from Dewey's Fleet Felipe Buencamino The San Juan Bridge Insurgent Prisoners Typical Insurgent Trenches Inside View of Insurgent Trenches at the Bagbag River General Henry W. Lawton Feeding Filipino Refugees The First Philippine Commission The Second Philippine Commission The Return of Mr. Taft Governor-general James F. Smith with a Bontoc Igorot Escort Governor-general Forbes in the Wild Man's Country The Philippine Supreme ...

— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

... law and a legislator, I would not think of opposing this aspiration. I consider it as natural as the right to live and the right of self-defence. I do not consider it premature for the Filipino woman to demand this right, as her sisters have done, successfully in some cases, in other parts of the world. To me it makes no difference that the number of those now demanding it is small and insignificant. It would even make no difference to me if the women of our country ...

— The Woman and the Right to Vote • Rafael Palma

... 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 here talking to you now, if ...

— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne

... experience, I've been to Fort Monroe, I've garrisoned Fort Hamilton and the Presidio. I went out to the Philippines and in the Walled Citie. I fought the Filipino War in ...

— Rhymes of the Rookies • W. E. Christian

... or knowledge not common to my countrymen. I do not prophesy. The present is all-absorbing to me, but I cannot bound my vision by the blood-stained trenches around Manila, where every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is anguish to my heart; but by the broad range of future years, when that group of islands, under the impulse of the year just passed, shall have become the gems and glories of those tropical seas; a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities; a people redeemed from savage indolence and ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

Words linked to "Filipino" : Tagalog, Philippine, Bisayan, Republic of the Philippines, Western Malayo-Polynesian, indigene, Cebuano, Cebuan, aborigine, native, Philippines