Dumaguete

American  

[doo-mah-ge-te] / ˌdu mɑˈgɛ tɛ /

noun

1. a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Dumaguete

When Pfeiffer was 10, his parents took over the music program at Silliman University, a Presbyterian school in Dumaguete, the Philippines.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

Still it gets lonely in Dumaguete, 7,400 miles and nine time zones west of PGA West and 5,000 miles west of Honolulu's Waialae Country Club, another course he played with his father.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

Ride past Dumaguete Harbor, where a cargo ship lies half-sunk in the shallows, through crowded, diesel-scented streets lined with Internet cafés, car-repair shacks, fruit stands, chickens and goats.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

To get to their rental home from Dumaguete airport, you hire a Philippine tricycle, which is basically a motorcycle pulling a rickshaw.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

He was minister of Dumaguete in 1599, and later of Potól, Ibabay, Mambusao, and Jaro, until 1628, when he died.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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 Robertson, James Alexander