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filipinos
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filipino \Fil`i*pi"no\, n.; pl. Filipinos . [Sp.] A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood. [WordNet sense 1] Then there are Filipinos, -- ``children of the country,'' they are called, ...
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Filipinos are a nation and ethnic group native to the Philippines that share a common Filipino culture and speak the Filipino language or one of the Philippine languages . According to the 2015 Census, there were 100,981,437 in the Philippines and about ...
Usage examples of filipinos.
Perky gate attendants in jaunty, improbable hats zero in on Filipinos with too many carry-ons, and subject them to a public ritual of filling out little tags and surrendering their possessions.
They will want to communicate with their families--the Filipinos are incredibly family-oriented.
But those same divers managed to hide a lot of silver from their guards and get it to Filipinos, who smuggled it into Manila, where it became so common that it totally debased the Japanese occupation currency.
Forward of that, several Filipinos, including women and children, are gathered in the shade of a bright blue tarpaulin, eating.
As he walks toward Randy, several Filipinos watch him with obvious curiosity.
Doug mentioned, weeks ago, that a small number of Filipinos knew about what they were doing, and that they could be trusted.
Many Filipinos are, racially, almost pure Chinese even though their families have been living here for centuries.
We bedded down nightly at small settlements after propitiating locals with gifts of penicillin (which Filipinos use like aspirin), batteries, disposable lighters, & whatever else had been left to us by the soldiers at the roadblocks.
And although I have been very busy, here in New Guinea, preparing the springboard for my return, the Filipinos don't know about any of this, and many of them probably think I have forgotten about them entirely.
The tactic has the desired effect of giving the Filipinos a reason to live again.
The Filipinos, experts at internal combustion, cannibalize some compressors to fix others.
The Filipinos spontaneously break into song over their evening rice bowls.
A sergeant is going around with a bayonet, stirring the guts of the Filipinos who are still moving.
Randy is always impressed by the mixture of love, hate, hope, disappointment, admiration, and derision that Filipinos express towards America.
Whenever Filipinos slag America in earshot of an American, they usually try to follow it up with some really vile observations about the Nipponese, just to put everything in perspective.