Phillips

Phillips

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪlɪps/
  • Homophone: fillips

Etymology 1

    From Phillip + -s.

    Alternative forms

    Proper noun

    Phillips (countable and uncountable, plural Phillipses)

    1. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Philip.
      • 2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN:
        Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.
    2. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
      2. A township in White County, Illinois.
      3. A town in Franklin County, Maine.
      4. A community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
      5. A village in Hamilton County, Nebraska.
      6. A small town in Coal County, Oklahoma.
      7. A ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas.
      8. A city, the county seat of Price County, Wisconsin.
    Derived terms

    Noun

    Phillips (plural Phillips or Phillipses)

    1. A Phillips screwdriver.

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    Phillips

    1. plural of Phillip