Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of the southern Philippines northeast of Borneo. Mindanao is the country's second largest and second most populous island.
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- proper noun An
island of thePhilippines - proper noun One of the three island groups in the Philippines
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic
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Examples
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Among those Filipinas Islands is one called Mindanao which is more than one hundred leguas long.
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Letters to Mindanao is disappointed over the government response to the bombings
Global Voices in English » Philippines: Bomb scare grips the country 2009
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Brawner said no suspects were immediately identified, but suspicion immediately fell on the well-armed Abu Sayyaf, which is blamed for numerous bombings, beheadings and kidnappings of Filipinos and foreigners in Mindanao in recent years.
KIA KIA/BNR 2009
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Tilao became a frequent voice on the radio in Mindanao, and he apparently so enjoyed this public persona that he nicknamed himself “DJ,” embroidering the initials on his backpack.
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He had the captives use it to call family and friends and implore them to pay ransom, and he used it himself to call a radio station in Mindanao and proudly announce his crime.
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Tilao became a frequent voice on the radio in Mindanao, and he apparently so enjoyed this public persona that he nicknamed himself “DJ,” embroidering the initials on his backpack.
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Years earlier he had been linked by local police to Moro guerrillas, and was thrown out of Zamboanga College, in Mindanao, where he had studied criminology.
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He had the captives use it to call family and friends and implore them to pay ransom, and he used it himself to call a radio station in Mindanao and proudly announce his crime.
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He had the captives use it to call family and friends and implore them to pay ransom, and he used it himself to call a radio station in Mindanao and proudly announce his crime.
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Years earlier he had been linked by local police to Moro guerrillas, and was thrown out of Zamboanga College, in Mindanao, where he had studied criminology.
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