filipino

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs

   “the Philippine President”

   “our Filipino cook”

   SynonymsPhilippine

Other forms of filipino

plural

filipinoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about filipino

What does filipino mean?

filipino means "a native or inhabitant of the Philippines". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filipino?

filipino has 4 syllables: fil-i-pi-no. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˌfɪləˈpinoʊ/.

What is another word for filipino?

Close synonyms include Philippine, Philippine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is filipino a common word?

filipino is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.