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Meaning of "Visayan" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VISAYAN

Visayan  [vɪˈsɑːjən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VISAYAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Visayan can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VISAYAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Visayan

Visayans

The Visayans or Visayan people are a Filipino ethnic group whose members share a great extent of cultural, historical and linguistic affinity stretching across islands within the Visayan Sea. The people are speakers of one or more Visayan languages, the most widely spoken being Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Waray. They live in the Visayan island group and in many parts of Mindanao. Some have migrated to other parts of the Philippines, including Luzon. The Visayans, as one ethnolinguistic umbrella and notwithstanding the population exclusive to that of Visayas, are the largest ethnic group in the country, numbering at around 33 million as of 2010. Kabisay-an refers both to the Visayan people collectively and the lands occupied by them. The Anglicized term Visayas is commonly used to refer to the latter. Based on loose definitions, the unofficial boundaries of Visayas traditionally comprise the following provinces commonly known where Visayans or people with Visayan culture reside: Aklan, Iloilo, Antique, Guimaras, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Cebu, Siquijor, Bohol, Southern Leyte, Leyte, Biliran, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Samar, Romblon and Masbate.

Definition of Visayan in the English dictionary

The definition of Visayan in the dictionary is a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines. Other definition of Visayan is of or relating to this people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VISAYAN


alien
ˈeɪljən
billion
ˈbɪljən
Bisayan
bɪˈsɑːjən
Brazilian
brəˈzɪljən
canyon
ˈkænjən
civilian
sɪˈvɪljən
companion
kəmˈpænjən
dominion
dəˈmɪnjən
Georgian
ˈdʒɔːdʒjən
Italian
ɪˈtæljən
Julian
ˈdʒuːljən
Kenyan
ˈkɛnjən
million
ˈmɪljən
minion
ˈmɪnjən
onion
ˈʌnjən
opinion
əˈpɪnjən
pavilion
pəˈvɪljən
reunion
riːˈjuːnjən
Sebastian
sɪˈbæstjən
union
ˈjuːnjən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VISAYAN

Vis.
visa
visage
visagiste
Visakhapatnam
Visayan Islands
Visby
Visc.

WORDS THAT END LIKE VISAYAN

Aryan
banyan
bayyan
Bunyan
Chomskyan
cyan
dayan
geyan
Himalayan
Indo-Aryan
Jabir ibn Hayyan
Libyan
Malayan
Mayan
minyan
Narayan
Paraguayan
Trevelyan
Uruguayan
Wesleyan

Synonyms and antonyms of Visayan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Visayan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VISAYAN

Find out the translation of Visayan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Visayan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Visayan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

米沙鄢
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Visayan
570 millions of speakers

English

Visayan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विसायन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفلبيني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Visayan
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Visayan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভিসায়ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

visayan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Visayan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Visayas-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビサヤ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비사 얀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Visayan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Visayan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Visayan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Visayan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Visayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Visayan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Visayan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Visayan
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Visayan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Visayan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

visayan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Visayan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

visayan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Visayan

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VISAYAN»

The term «Visayan» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.033 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VISAYAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Visayan» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Visayan» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Visayan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISAYAN»

Discover the use of Visayan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Visayan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island
"To read the book is to appreciate the highly contingent, provisional, oblique, open-ended way in which people try to make "sense" of another culture."—Resil B. Mojares, Philippine Graphic "This book is an interestingly complex ...
Jean-Paul Dumont, 1992
2
The Subanu; studies of a sub-Visayan mountain folk of ...
Ethnographical and geographical sketch of land and people William Churchill, John Park Finley. The lingual nasal n affords us a far briefer record of variability as between the two languages, for it is not necessary to repeat in this position the  ...
William Churchill, John Park Finley, 1913
3
The Subanu: Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao
Part I. Ethnological And Geographical Sketch Of Land And People. Part II. Discussion Of The Linguistic Material. Part III. Vocabularies.
John Park Finley, William Churchill, 2006
4
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Visayan. Subanu. Visayan. Type an-han. arunaan arunahan gama amahan gap6 apohan gina imh&fl meaon mayahon sinbaan singbahan ulihan oalihan Type h initial. aoid haoid atud hatod gutnaoa gm'nhaoa unpit hingpit inog hinog lines ...
‎1913
5
Visayans: Cebuano, Geography of the Visayas, Visayan ...
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LLC Books, 2010
6
Census of the Philippine Islands: Taken Under the Direction ...
Visayan . Mixed: Filipino . . . Yellow: Chinese . . . White: American . Spanish ... San Carlos. Brown: Filipino Поснпо I'ani pangan . . . Tagalog Visayen Mixed: Filipino Yellow: Chinese White: American Filipino Spanish All other superan II ""t- "ter- ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, Joseph Prentiss Sanger, Henry Gannett, 1905
7
Visayan Culture: Panaghoy Sa Suba, Sinulog Festival, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books Llc, 2010
8
Philippine, Visayan and Tagalog Folk-Tales, and Bagobo Myths ...
Visayan Folk-Tales (1906) is by Berton L. Maxfield and W. H. Millington. Tagalog Folk-Tales (1907) is by Fletcher Gardner. He worked amongst the Tagalogs and also wrote Philippine Indic Studies (1943).
Clara K. Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington and Others, 2009
9
Visayan Languages
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books Llc, 2010
10
Articles on Visayan Literature, Including: Cecilia Manguerra ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VISAYAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Visayan is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hukad to introduce Visayan cuisine in Luzon through franchising
By 2016, Cebu Golden Restaurant Inc., the operator of Hukad and Golden Cowrie, will expand to Luzon after penetrating key cities in Visayas and Mindanao ... «Sun.Star, Jun 15»
2
4 provinces want Visayan Sea declared nat'l maritime reserve
ILOILO CITY—Four provinces have called on Congress and the President to declare the 10,000-square kilometer Visayan Sea a national maritime reserve to ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
3
Campaign on to declare Visayan Sea a National Marine Reserve
ILOILO – The people of the provinces surrounding the Visayan Sea triangle are seeking to have the Visayan Sea declared as a National Marine Reserve of the ... «InterAksyon, Jun 15»
4
Rare Visayan warty pigs to debut at Pittsburgh Zoo
Visayan warty pigs are critically endangered in their natural range due to loss of habitat and human contact. The zoo plans to bring a male in to mate with the ... «WPXI Pittsburgh, Jun 15»
5
42 Visayan solons to vote as a bloc on BBL
Crossing party lines, the 42-member Visayan bloc in the House of Representatives will vote as one on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in the ... «GMA News, May 15»
6
Travelling by road and Ro-Ro to the Visayan islands and to Mindanao
It is possible to travel by road from Luzon to any point in the larger islands of the Visayas and Mindanao without riding an airplane. It can be done (by road )with ... «Philippine Star, May 15»
7
US missionaries charm Visayan teens
MEMBERS of the Hey Joe Show are (from left) Tylan, Davis, Sumner, Jake and Connor. The group had a mall show at Ayala Center Cebu on May 1. CARMEL ... «Inquirer.net, May 15»
8
Visayan Forum, partner agencies push for IFight in NegOr
In a recent meeting with Ma. Cecilia Oebanda, founder and president of Visayan forum Foundation Inc. in Dumaguete City, the group unanimously pushed for ... «Sun.Star, Apr 15»
9
Rare warty pigs are lost when male eats his entire family at Bristol zoo
The most gruesome incident came after Manilla, a female Visayan warty pig was ... Warty pigs - native to the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines - are so ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
10
Visayan solons reject calls for PNoy's resignation, impeachment
Members of the Visayan bloc in the House of Representatives on Thursday rejected calls for the resignation or impeachment of President Benigno Aquino III ... «GMA News, Feb 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Visayan [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/visayan>. May 2024 ».
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