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Ceylon
Portuguese form of Sri Lanka (q.v.). Related: Ceylonese.
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Sri Lanka large island southeast of India (known in English until 1972 as Ceylon), from Lanka, older name for the island and its chief city, + Sanskrit sri "beauty" (especially of divinities, kings, heroes, etc.), also an honorific prefix to proper names, from PIE root *kreie- "to be outstanding, brilliant, masterly, beautiful," found in Greek (kreon "lord, master") and Indo-Iranian.
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Definitions of Ceylon
Ceylon (n.)
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India;
Ceylon (n.)
a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948;
