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• Cebú
  Cebú

  noun

  an island in the S central Philippines. 1,703 sq. mi. (4,411 sq. km).
• Cebu
  Cebu

  noun

  an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)

Cebú

American  

[se-boo] / sɛˈbu /

noun

1. an island in the S central Philippines. 1,703 sq. mi. (4,411 sq. km).

2. a seaport on this island.

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Cebu British  

/ sɪˈbuː /

noun

1. an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)

2. a port in the Philippines, on E Cebu island. Pop: 796 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

In Camarines and Albay the fabrics of abacá are more commonly woven, and in Cebú the women are accustomed to work at the loom.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

While the last Cebú imprint, a government statistical report on crime and the like, is dated 1892.

From Some notes on the bibliography of the Philippines by Middleton, Thomas Cooke

The capital city, Cebú, was the first in the Archipelago to possess a municipality, and was, in fact, until 1571, the capital of the Philippines.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

Bohol lies off the southern half of the eastern coast of Cebú, and is only half the size of that island, but it has more than half the population.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

He also composed a copious vocabulary of the languages of the two islands, Panay and Cebú, which are quite distinct.

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