Ceylon
proper noun
- former name for Sri Lanka
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɒn/ / /seɪˈlɑn/ / /siˈlɑn/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
- 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
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
- Tea produced in Sri Lanka.