Visayan Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the central Philippines, including Panay, Negros, Cebú, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Masbate, and smaller islands.

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Visayan Islands British  

plural noun

1. Spanish name: Bisayas.  a group of seven large and several hundred small islands in the central Philippines. Chief islands: Negros and Panay. Pop: 15 528 346 (2000). Area: about 61 000 sq km (23 535 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The Colonel then desired to seek further information in the Visayan Islands; cabled to Washington for permission to use the U. S. destroyer Merritt lying idle in Manila Bay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between U.S. forces on Leyte and the inviting western island of Mindoro was the whole complex of the Visayan Islands, largely held by the Japanese.

From Time Magazine Archive

From airfields on Leyte and the other Visayan Islands, Japan could be effectively cut off from its stolen southern empire and its direly needed raw materials.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, the indicated disposition of troops completed, technically at least, the American occupation of the Visayan Islands.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.

Pursuant to the plan followed, as we have hitherto followed the army in our narrative, first throughout northern Luzon and later through southern Luzon, some data are now in order concerning the Visayan Islands.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.