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Definition of Cebuan

1. Noun. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu; a member of the Visayan people of the Philippines.

2. Noun. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines; its lexicon contributes to the official language of the Philippines.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cebuan

Cayugas Cayuse Caz Cazenave's vitiligo Cb Cbz Cdn. Cds1 kinase Ce CePAK kinase

Ceará Cebu Cebu City Cebu maguey Cebuan (current term) Cebuano Cebuella Cebuella pygmaea Cebus Cebus capucinus

Cecelia Cecidomyidae Cecie Cecil Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille Cecil Frank Powell Cecil J. Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes

Literary usage of Cebuan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1907)
"In Sulu final it of the unit is contracted with the a of the suffix and the intervocalic I is elided. ' Sixty' in Cebuan and ..."

2. The Pepet Law in Philippine Languages by Carlos Everett Conant (1913)
"(Cebuan.) CONANT CE A Bisaya-English Dictionary (MS) prepared at Cebú, P. L, ... (The standard work for the Cebuan dialect. It also contains many words from ..."

3. Bulletin by Philippines Mining Bureau (1902)
"... but the absence in the region of Benguet of the Cebuan lignitic series and the character of the organic remains appear to indicate that this portion of ..."

4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1908)
"Eric Lund has produced translations and other publications in Spanish, Visayan and Cebuan which are accepted as standards. To him may be given the credit of ..."

5. Missionary Review of the World (1898)
"... by about 2000000 people, Cebuan by some 400.000, Tagalog by 1300000, Vicol (a dialect of the latter) by 325000, Ilocano by 350000, Pangasinan by 300000, ..."

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