Meaning of Filipina | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.
   countable
2. A female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.
   countable, historical, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Recently, the police station at Nei-Hu district arrested about ten Filipina domestics and nursing workers who ran away from their employers.”

“Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.”

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