Visayan

[ vi-sahy-uhn ]

noun

, plural Vi·sa·yans, (especially collectively) Vi·sa·yan.

1. one of a Malay people, the most numerous Indigenous people of the Philippines.
2. the language of this people, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

Visayan

/ vɪˈsɑːjən /

noun

1. a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines

adjective

1. of or relating to this people

Example Sentences

During the evening the natives gave a Visayan dance, called in the native tongue “A Courtship.”

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One would hardly recognize the waltz or two-step as performed by the Visayan.

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He had the cook's mouth pried open in determined endeavor to ram what looked like half a chicken down the Visayan's gullet.

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The old man was spokesman and in his native visayan tongue made a heart-rending appeal for aid which we were powerless to give.

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The Bengali tale can hardly be the direct source of our Visayan form, but it appears to be fairly closely related to that source.

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