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  • An island of the northwest Philippines. It is the largest and most populous island in the archipelago.

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  • proper noun The largest island of the Philippines.

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  • noun the main island of the Philippines

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Examples

  • Decentralizing government departments - There is a motion to move the various Departments (Finance, Education, Agriculture, Trade & Industry, etc.) away from Manila, where they are all currently located, to other places in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Decentralizing government departments - There is a motion to move the various Departments (Finance, Education, Agriculture, Trade & Industry, etc.) away from Manila, where they are all currently located, to other places in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

    talking the talk Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Forty-two vessels were wrecked in Southern Luzon alone, and may lives were lost.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Charles Sass recalls his most vivid memories of the fighting in southern Luzon and the fall of the Japanese mountain fortress at Malepunyo that marked the collapse of large-scale Japanese resistance there.

    Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

  • A day after the ruling, the Philippine Daily Inquirer printed an entry from its Northern Luzon Bureau titled Luzon towns to pursue cityhood Fight.

    Defending Cityhood in the Philippines 2008

  • The one-day TARE comes with the recent success of the overnight version won by a team of celebrity comedians during its pilot across different points in Luzon.

    happy happy joy joy Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • The one-day TARE comes with the recent success of the overnight version won by a team of celebrity comedians during its pilot across different points in Luzon.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • The Division is administratively subdivided into three departments, namely Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the two former being commanded by Brig.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • In the provinces of Laguna and Batangas there is the high mountain called Maijai, one of the loftiest in Luzon, which is beyond doubt an ancient crater; on the summit a little lake is found, the depth of which cannot be measured.

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • We did not have any roads there of any kind; we have now upwards of five thousand miles of automobile roads, so that you can go in an automobile all over the Province of Luzon, which is the largest province.

    Empire 1914

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