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Filipinizations

Filipinizations is the plural of Filipinization.

Meaning of Filipinization

Noun

Filipinization (countable and uncountable, plural Filipinizations)

  1. A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
    • The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society.1990, Rolando V. De la Rosa, Beginnings of the Filipino Dominicans, →ISBN
  2. Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
    • The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios.1971, Elizabeth Durack, Seeing through the Philippines, page 64
  3. Tagalization

Questions about Filipinizations

What is Filipinizations the plural of?
Filipinizations is the plural of Filipinization.

Words near Filipinizations in the dictionary

  1. Filipin@s
  2. Filipina
  3. Filipinas
  4. Filipiniana
  5. Filipinization
  6. Filipinizations
  7. Filipinize
  8. Filipinized
  9. Filipinizes
  10. Filipinizing
  11. Filipino

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Filipinizations (page history and authors); Filipinization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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