Akademik

Ceylon

noun

1. an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India (Freq. 2)

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑island

• Part Holonyms: ↑Indian Ocean

2. a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948

• Syn: ↑Sri Lanka, ↑Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Sri Lankan (for: ↑Sri Lanka)

• Members of this Region:

↑Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ↑LTTE, ↑Tamil Tigers, ↑Tigers, ↑World Tamil Association, ↑World Tamil Movement, ↑Hinduism, ↑Hindooism

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑country, ↑state, ↑land

• Member Meronyms: ↑Sinhalese, ↑Singhalese, ↑Sri Lankan

• Part Meronyms:

↑Colombo, ↑capital of Sri Lanka, ↑Kandy, ↑Eelam, ↑Tamil Eelam, ↑Adam's Peak, ↑Samanala

Useful english dictionary. 2012.