MINDANAO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mindanao mean? 

• MINDANAO (noun)
  The noun MINDANAO has 1 sense:

1. the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic

  Familiarity information: MINDANAO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINDANAO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (members of "Mindanao"):

Moro (a member of the predominantly Muslim people in the southern Philippines)

Holonyms ("Mindanao" is a part of...):

Philippine Islands; Philippines (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)

 Context examples 

On Saturday, reports said Wednesday's quake affected the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Region 11 and Region 12.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)