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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In one barangay not far from Dr Arcilla's office lives Marilou Calica, a 47-year-old mother of six, who works as a part-time cleaner in a government office.

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

Ferdie had been napping on a bench outside a shop in the barangay.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2016

They seized as much of the sea and near-by rivers as they could preserve and defend from any other barangay, or from many barangays, according as they had settled near or far from others.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 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 Emma Helen Blair

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 not all barangays have toed the line.

From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 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

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

Within the pueblos the people formed little groups of from forty to fifty tributes called barangays under the supervision of cabezas de barangay.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson