Filipina

plural Filipinas

1. countableA female citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.

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

   2006 [1997 December 16], Shu-Ju Ada Cheng, “The Global Trade in Domestic Service”, in Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan (Sociology; Asian Studies), Lexington Books, sourced from United Daily News, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59

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   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.

   2009 April 22, Vina A. Lanzona, Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 31

   Synonyms: Pinay

2. countablehistoricalobsoleteA female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.

   Synonyms: Spaniard, Spanish

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to female citizens or local inhabitants of the Philippines.