Parañaque

American  

[par-uhnyah-key, -kee, pah-rahnyah-ke] / ˌpærˈənyɑ keɪ, -ki, ˌpɑˈrɑnyɑ kɛ /

noun

1. a city on Luzon, in the N Philippines, on the S of Manila Bay.

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Example Sentences

At the Redemptorist Church in Parañaque City, near Manila, church workers have installed a prominent exhibit of images from the drug war in an effort to raise awareness of its human cost.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2016

He was procurator-general in 1621, prior of Santo Niño de Cebú in 1623, missionary at Pásig, 1625–1629, of Parañaque in 1626, provincial chronicler in 1630, and prior of Guadalupe in 1635.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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

With the remainder he reached the coast at Parañaque, a village seven miles south of Manila.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

Salt is made at many places between Parañaque and Cavite.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

From Parañaque, on the bay shore south of Manila, the insurgents fired on the monitor Monadnock, but a few shots from this vessel silenced the shore battery.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John