Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Luzon, Philippines, on Manila Bay southwest of Manila. It has been an important naval base since Spanish times. The American facilities here were virtually destroyed in bombing raids by the Japanese on December 10, 1941.
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Examples
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It was signal number two here in Cavite but the sun was up and shining like it was summer.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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It was a long drive to the next sites in Cavite - Imus and Dasmarinas.
je suis fatigue Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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Growing up in Cavite, my family didn’t have much money.
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So graduating students if you’re living in Cavite don’t say that you don’t wanna go to DLSU-D and that you'd rather kiss a toilet bowl than go there no matter what coz fate will play a mean, mean joke on you and you’ll end up like me.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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I have rummaged every record bars in Cavite and Metro Manila and I still can’t find any copies of The Young and the Hopeless.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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It isn't as cold as it used to be but the weather there is waaaaaaaayyyyy better than the weather here in Cavite.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Three weeks after they took it, artillery was slowly carried over to Cavite, which is connected with the mainland by a narrow isthmus, so the rebels hastened to construct
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Southwest by south from the port of Cavite, which is in six and one-half degrees of latitude in the island of Mindanao where cinnamon grows, lies a small island, called Taguima.
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After having robbed some vessels they came toward the port of Cavite, which is two leguas from this city, and is the place where vessels anchor.
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One or two of the officials should be present at the port of Cavite, which is the landing-place of ships, two leagues from this city; and there should be also present on the ship, during its lading, the freighters who are ordinarily appointed, and an auditor, so that no cloth will be allowed to be laded except it be that contained in the said allotment.
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