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Definitions: Cebu |
CebuNoun1. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines. 2. One of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CebuSynonym: Cebu City (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cebu |
| English words defined with "Cebu": Cebu City, Cebu maguey, Cebuan, Cebuano. (references) |
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![]() | The "Club" at Cebu.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Hubert A. Paton and Bloomberg in a Cebu cart Liberty from the PATHFINDER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Wreck of the Spanish armed transport Cebu, photographed sometime after the battle.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Underway in Philippine waters, en route to Cebu, circa 1914-1916.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | A Class in basketry at Mandane, Cebu, Philippine Islands.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | First troops of the 3rd Battalion, 132nd Infantry American Division, wade ashore, across heavily mined beaches, during invasion of Cebu Island, P.I., at a point just south of Cebu City--The invasion was preceded by heavy naval and aerial bombardment.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Philippines | Iloilo shares with Cebu the servicing of the country's central area. (references) |
Philippines | In addition to Manila, the other major interregional centers are Cebu City, Iloilo, Davao, and Zamboanga. (references) | |
Philippines | Cebu City, the third largest city in the Philippines, is the prime trading center in the southern part of the archipelago. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | An additional 64 accredited hotels are outside Metro Manila -- in Baguio City, Tagaytay City, Cebu, Davao, La Union, Subic, Cavite, Angeles City, etc. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Some recruiters reportedly bring girls between the ages of 13 and 17 to work in Manila or Cebu under terms that involve a "loan" advanced to their parents that the children are obliged to repay through their work. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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| Philippines | Cebu Holdings Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Cebu": cebu City ♦ Cebu Investment Promotion Center ♦ cebu maguey. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cebu | 921 | cebu city map | 19 |
cebu city philippine | 429 | cebu news philippine | 19 |
cebu philippine | 127 | cebu daily sunstar | 18 |
cebu city | 94 | cebu freeman | 17 |
cebu hotel | 87 | cebu star sun | 17 |
cebu pacific | 74 | cebu island | 15 |
cebu news | 70 | cebu news philippine sunstar | 15 |
cebu daily news | 62 | aboitiz cebu land | 14 |
cebu sunstar | 49 | cebu house lot | 14 |
cebu real estate | 48 | hotel in cebu philippine | 14 |
cebu philippine hotel | 34 | cebu ganado | 13 |
cebu newspaper | 30 | hotel cebu city philippine | 12 |
cebu map | 28 | waterfront hotel cebu | 11 |
cebu size | 28 | cebu picture | 11 |
university of cebu | 26 | cebu pacific air | 11 |
cebu city hotel | 26 | hotel in cebu | 11 |
cebu resort | 26 | cebu estate real sale | 11 |
cebu girl | 24 | cebu newspaper philippine star sun | 10 |
airline cebu pacific | 24 | real estate cebu philippine | 9 |
cebu furniture | 22 | cebu supply water | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "Cebu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 宿务. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ebucay | ||||
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Words containing "Cebu": spicebush, spicebushes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cube. | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-u" | |
-1 letter: cub, cue, ecu. | |
-2 letters: be. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-u" | |
+1 letter: cubeb, cubed, cuber, cubes. | |
+2 letters: abduce, boucle, bounce, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, cherub, cubage, cubebs, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, rubace. | |
+3 letters: abduced, abduces, bascule, because, becloud, becrust, becurse, becurst, bedunce, bescour, blucher, bluecap, bouchee, boucles, bounced, bouncer, bounces, brucine, buckeen, buckers, buckets, buckeye, buckled, buckler, buckles, buckoes, bullace, bunched, bunches, buncoed, buncoes, butcher, butches, cherubs, ciboule, clubbed, clubber, clubmen, clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, cubages, cubbies, cubicle, cudbear, cumbers, curable, curbers, debauch, debouch, kebbuck, obscure, roebuck, rubaces, scumble, subcell, subcode, subduce, subecho, suberic, subject, subrace, subsect, unbrace. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 65 62 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. . -... ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100101 01100010 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C e b u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0065 0062 0075 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37716887 |
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