ceylon

UK /sɪˈlɒn/ US /seɪˈlɑn/

name 3noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

independent

VERB + CEYLON

came

CEYLON + NOUN

government, railway

PREP.

from, in

Definitions

name

Former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .

Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.

A male given name transferred from the place name.

An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.

noun

Tea produced in Sri Lanka.

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Example Bank

Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.

Wiktionary

As Ceylon, it became independent in 1948; its name was changed to Sri Lanka in 1972.

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