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

At one point, Guevara told the nurse she hated needles; Legaspi assured her that they could avoid them today.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

“He was an icon. We lost a hero and I lost a father,” said Legaspi, a retired Philippine air force official, who served as a key staff to Ramos for about 15 years.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2022

Some of Ramos’s relatives were with him when he died on Sunday at the Makati Medical Center in metropolitan Manila, Legaspi said, adding the family would issue a statement on his death later Sunday.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 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