(linguistics, generative grammar) A grammatical feature that is usually exhibited in predicate-argument agreement, such as person, number, or gender.

The Republic of the Philippines, a Southeast Asian country composed of over seven thousand islands in the Pacific Ocean, composed of the Philippine archipelago.

(historical) A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.

(historical) Originating from ancient Philistia; of or pertaining to the ancient Philistines.

The largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of coterminous Philadelphia County; former capital of the United States.

Stamp collecting. / The study of postage stamps, postal routes, postal history, etc.

(alchemy, uncountable) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.

A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines.

(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.

(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom. / (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism. / (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.