manila bay

1. 1.

   a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet

   Broadernaval battle

   Part ofSpanish-American War

   Philippines

Questions about manila bay

What does manila bay mean?

manila bay means "a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet".

Is manila bay a common word?

manila bay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.