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

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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

The captain of the neighboring Commonwealth barangay, Manuel Co, said he was always forewarned about Station 6’s operations.

From Reuters ● Dec. 19, 2017

The first is composed of all Indians who are, or have been cabessas de barangay, that is to say, collectors of taxes, which situation is honorary.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

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

Police in central Luzon told Reuters that 31 of the region's 3,100 barangays had not supplied a watch list.

From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2016

But not all barangays have toed the line.

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 James Alexander Robertson

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