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 ministered to Halaud and Otón successively in 1576 and 1577; was preacher and confessor in 1581; minister at Parañaque in 1584, at Tabucao in 1584, at Pásig in 1586, and at Tondo in 1587.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 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

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

The result was the complete defeat of the Chinese, who were driven back upon their boats at Parañaque.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.