Legaspi

American  

[luh-gas-pee, le-gahs-pee] / ləˈgæs pi, lɛˈgɑs pi /

noun

1. a seaport on southeast Luzon, in the Philippines.

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Legaspi British  

/ lɛˈɡæspɪ /

noun

1. a port in the Philippines, on SE Luzon on the Gulf of Albay. Pop: 178 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Rizza Malaga, a virtual assistant with Work at Home Jobs from Legaspi, in the Philippines, had viewed my account.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

The veteran bartender recruited a team of local culinary all-stars to help out in the kitchen: Jonnah Ayala, the former chef de cuisine at Musang, and Justin Legaspi of Renee Erickson’s Boat Bar.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

“You’re everybody’s mom,” Legaspi said to Rosas last month at Pike Place Market, gushing over a plate piled with pancit, longanisa sausage and sour salmon sinigang.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

“So shortness of breath and chest pain — how long have you had that?” asked registered nurse Richelle Legaspi.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Ruy Lopez de Villalobos sighted the islands again after him in the year 1539.2 Finally they were pacified in the year 1571 by the adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legaspi.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various