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Phillips

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Etymology 1

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From Phillip +‎ -s.

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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.
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Noun

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Phillips (plural Phillips)

  1. A Phillips screwdriver.

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Phillips

  1. plural of Phillip