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# manila

«manila» in Mova's school dictionary: **the capital city of the Philippines, a country of islands…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Manila — a name; manila — the paper, uncountable); adjective (manila)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Manila is the capital city of the Philippines, a country of islands in Southeast Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#m1)

2) Manila paper or a manila envelope or folder: strong, light brown paper, first made from a plant called Manila hemp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, Manila is a huge, busy capital on Manila Bay. In everyday and office life, manila envelopes and folders are the brown ones used for documents. Phrases: Manila Bay, a manila envelope, manila folder.

### examples

- Manila is the capital of the Philippines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x1)
- Our teacher keeps our tests in a manila folder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x2)
- The letter came in a brown manila envelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x3)
- Manila is on the island of Luzon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x4)
- Many people in Manila speak Filipino and English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x5)
- Typhoons sometimes hit Manila. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/#x6)

### note

Capital M for the city, small m for the paper. Sometimes spelled manilla for the paper.

### In the corpora

- [The Philippines, capital Manila, are named after King Philip II of Spain, and Spain ruled them from 1565 to 1898.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/14/)
- [In the 16th and 17th centuries Spanish silver from the Americas flowed into Ming China through Manila to buy silk and porcelain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manila» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manila/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.