barangay

American  

[bahr-uhng-gahy] / ˌbɑr əŋˈgaɪ /

noun

• barangays
  plural

1. in the Philippines, a village or community constituting a small administrative unit of local government.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• inter-barangay
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• barangays
  plural

Example Sentences

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barangay barangays

You don't have to walk far in Metro Manila to find poor neighbourhoods, or barangay as they are known.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023

“Every barangay had specialty cooks who were called upon during happy occasions like fiestas and weddings. It’s just a matter of harnessing this cultural tradition.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

The barangay kapitan, an elected official at the head of the community, had been compiling lists of local users.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2018

Back in Maria's barangay, Clara and her brothers and sisters don't leave their mother's side.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2016

The cabezas of barangay can be elected, if they preserve their cabecerías and the collection of tributes, by the rule in the royal decree of October 17, 1785.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 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 Robertson, James Alexander

Station 6 presides over six large barangays, or districts, that include government complexes, a giant garbage dump and some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods.

From Reuters ● Dec. 19, 2017

It's overcrowded because there are several thousand people in this low-income urban village in Manila, just one of many so-called "barangays".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2016

But the campaign's efficiency depends on the lowliest officials in the country's barangays - its districts and villages.

From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2016

As always, it is the poor in the barangays — as the smallest units of municipal organization are called — who pay the highest price.

From Time ● Aug. 25, 2016

This Page 170applied equally to men and women, except that when one married a woman of another village, the children were afterwards divided equally between the two barangays.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 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 Robertson, James Alexander