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PRONUNCIATION OF VISAYAN ISLANDS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VISAYAN ISLANDS

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Visayan Islands is a noun.
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WHAT DOES VISAYAN ISLANDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Visayas

The Visayas /vɨˈsaɪəz/ və-SY-əz or Visayan Islands, is one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Mindanao and Luzon. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, although the Visayas are considered the northeast extremity of the entire Sulu Sea. Residents are known as the Visayans. The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and Masbate, whose population identify as Visayan. There are three administrative regions in the Visayas: Western Visayas, Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas.

Definition of Visayan Islands in the English dictionary

The definition of Visayan Islands in the dictionary is a group of seven large and several hundred small islands in the central Philippines. Chief islands: Negros and Panay. Pop: 15 528 346. Area: about 61 000 sq km Spanish name: Bisayas.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VISAYAN ISLANDS

Vis.
visa
visage
visagiste
Visakhapatnam
Visayan
Visby
Visc.

WORDS THAT END LIKE VISAYAN ISLANDS

British Virgin Islands
Caicos Islands
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
hands
Highlands
Hollands
Islands
Keeling Islands
lands
Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
Midlands
Netherlands
Northern Mariana Islands
Solomon Islands
the Netherlands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands

Synonyms and antonyms of Visayan Islands in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Visayan Islands» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VISAYAN ISLANDS

Find out the translation of Visayan Islands to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Visayan Islands 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 Islands» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

米沙鄢群岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Islas Visayas
570 millions of speakers

English

Visayan Islands
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विसायन द्वीप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جزر الفلبيني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Visayan острова
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ilhas de Visayan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Visayan দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Îles Visayas
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepulauan Visayan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Visayas-Inseln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビサヤ諸島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비사 얀 제도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapuloan Visayan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Quần đảo Visayan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விசயன் தீவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विसायन बेटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Visayan Adaları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Isole Visayan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wyspy Visayan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Visayan острови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Insulele Visayan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Visayan Νησιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

visayan Eilande
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Visayanöarna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Visayan Islands
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Visayan Islands

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VISAYAN ISLANDS»

The term «Visayan Islands» is normally little used and occupies the 128.165 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VISAYAN ISLANDS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISAYAN ISLANDS»

Discover the use of Visayan Islands in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Visayan Islands and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
(120-130 cm) Diet: Leaves, twigs, and grasses Gestation period: Unknown Longevity: Unknown Habitat: Open forest to dense thickets Range: Visayan Islands, Philippines This handsome deer comes only from the Visayan Islands, part of the ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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A Pronouncing Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary of the ...
Dapitan, Mindanao do Davao, Mindanao . do Via Sulu and Mindoro seas, Miudoro Strait, and China Sea. Ncgros Oriental, Visayan Islands. ....do Via Davao Gulf, Saranganl and Basilan strait*, Sulu Sea, Mindoro Strait, and China Sea.
United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs, De Benneville Randolph Keim, 1902
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Elihu Root collection of United States documents relating to ...
Abra Negros, Panay Visayan Islands. . . do Bataan, .Zambales. Masbate Nueva Ecija Part used. Baquit, \ - - Barinas, P., T Barinatnat, II Barong, P., T Batarag, It, C Batian, P Bical, II., l*n Bicul, Pn Biling, V Bilua, T Bolongkahinay, V Bongbong, ...
Elihu Root, United States, 1907
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The Philippine Island World: A Physical, Cultural, and ...
Each of the Visayan islands possesses several geologic conditions that are rather closely related to conditions on others in the Visayan group and are quite different from those on Luzon, Mindanao, and Palawan-Mindoro. Grouped around the ...
Frederick L. Wernstedt, Joseph Earle Spencer, 1967
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A pronouncing gazetteer and geographical dictionary of the ...
Negros Oriental, Visayan Islands. ....do Via DAvao Gulf, Sarangani and Bnsilan straits, Sulu Sea, Mindoro Strait, and China Sea. Zambales, N. Luzon Isabela, N. Luzon Iloilo, Panay, Visayan Islands. ....do Basilan Group, Mindanao, Sulu Sea.
United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs, 1902
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Statement Before the Committee on Insular Affairs on ...
I mean all of the Visayan Islands? Mr. Buencamino. No. Mr. Jones. Which ones, if you can remember, of the Visayan Islands were represented in that body? Mr. Buencamino. All the provinces had their representatives, Luzon and the Visayan  ...
Felipe Buenoamino, 1902
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Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island
The Visayan islands in between are more fragmented. Many of these islands are nothing more than tiny islets altogether inhospitable or unable to sustain any prolonged occupation by human beings (see map 1). As a Southeast-Asian ...
Jean-Paul Dumont, 1992
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Census of the Philippine Islands: Taken Under the Direction ...
In Luzon and the Visayan Islands the leaves are used for making hats, mats, baskets, pocket cases, bags, sails, etc. Pandanus fasiculatub. Pandan, Sabotan. A low tree with usually very short trunk soon branching. The leaves are long, sword ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, Joseph Prentiss Sanger, Henry Gannett, 1905
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Elihu Root collection of United States documents: Ser. A.-F.]
I mean all of the Visayan Islands? Mr. Buencamino. No. Mr. Jones. Which ones, if you can remember, of the Visayan Islands were represented in that body? Mr. Buencamino. All the provinces had their representatives, Luzon and the Visayan  ...
Elihu Root, United States, 1903
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Congressional edition
Ballaeag (V.); Cobag; Dulian (II.); Obat; Paqult; Chinese Potato, Yam, Cinnamon Vine (Eng.). A tall climbing plant with edible tubers. Found in northern Luzon and the VIsayan Islands, and is sometimes cultivated. Dioscorea papillaris, Linn.
United States. Congress, 1908

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VISAYAN ISLANDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Visayan Islands is used in the context of the following news items.
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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»
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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»
3
Trade, commerce, bridges
He proposed the interconnectivity among major Visayan Islands as a long term measure to decongest key urban centers, including Metro Manila. The concept is ... «Sun.Star, Dec 14»
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VIVA ExCon: This is worth doing, 2
FOR the most part, the Visayan Islands Visual Arts Exposition and Conference (VIVA ExCon) is privately-funded; though the government's cultural agency, the ... «Sun.Star, Dec 14»
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Bridging the Visayan Islands
Back in 2006, Visayan governors passed a resolution urging then President Gloria Arroyo to make the Trans-Visayas Friendship Bridges linking the islands of ... «Sun.Star, Oct 14»
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Visayan senator
Alfredo Marañon Jr., Vice Governor Eugenio José "Bong" Lacson, Visayan Bloc solons, board members and ... That we all live in different Visayan islands? Heck ... «Sun.Star, Sep 14»
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Endangered Visayan warty pigs born at San Diego Zoo
Two extremely cute, rare, and unfortunately endangered Visayan warty pigs are ... The warty pigs are only found in the wild on the Visayan Islands, located in the ... «San Diego Entertainer Magazine, Jul 14»
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Critically Endangered Piglets Born at San Diego Zoo
A four-week-old Visayan warty pig appears to pose for the camera under the ... Visayan warty pigs, endemic to the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines, are ... «Times of San Diego, Jul 14»
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'Why poor Bicol, Visayan and Mindanao towns are prevented from …
It is sad that poor towns in the Bicol provinces and in some Visayan islands as well as in Mindanao may not be as lucky as Balamban. In my travels to these ... «Philippine Star, Jul 14»
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Poverty, reconstruction and development in Eastern Visayas after …
Samar and Leyte are the island bridges between the country's north and the south and the western Visayan islands. They have good land, mineral and aquatic ... «Philippine Star, Jun 14»

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