Parañaque

American  

[par-uhnyah-key, -kee, pah-rahnyah-ke] / ˌpærˈənyɑ keɪ, -ki, ˌpɑˈrɑnyɑ kɛ /

noun

1. a city on Luzon, in the N Philippines, on the S of Manila Bay.

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Example Sentences

At the Redemptorist Church in Parañaque City, near Manila, church workers have installed a prominent exhibit of images from the drug war in an effort to raise awareness of its human cost.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2016

Salt is made at many places between Parañaque and Cavite.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

If they wish us to recognize them in Cavite, let them recognize our rights in Parañaque.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.

In the province of Tondo, they have charge of the village of that name, Tambobo, Malate, Parañaque, Pásig, and Taguig, with various visitas annexed to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Received a telegram from the captain adjutant, who is in Parañaque, of the following tenor: 'I inform your excellency that two cascos of armed Americans have arrived at this point.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.