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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the former name of an island republic in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of India, now called
Sri Lanka . It is an independent nation with an area of 25,332 sq. mi. and a population of about 14 million people.
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- proper noun The old name for
Sri Lanka , prior to 1972.
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- noun a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
- noun an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Footnote 1: An account of slavery in Ceylon, and the proceedings for its suppression, will be found in PRIDHAM'S _Ceylon_, vol.i. p. 223.] _Compulsory Labour_.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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; on Ceylon, T.H. Parker, _Ancient Ceylon_, iv; and on the
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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[Footnote 1: Detailed accounts of the pearl fishery of Ceylon and the conduct of the divers, will be found in PERCIVAL's _Ceylon_, ch. iii.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Edinburgh by the Rev. J.G. Macvicar, D.D.] [Footnote 2: From a paper on the G.ology of Ceylon, by Dr. G.rdner, in the Appendix to Lee's translation of RIBEYRO'S _History of Ceylon_, p,
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Ceylon would send home for examination the species which respectively bear these names.] [Footnote 3: See DAVY'S _Ceylon_, ch. xiv.] [Footnote 4: Daboia elegans, _Daud.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Zheng He sailed his treasure fleet through the Strait of Malacca and out across the Indian Ocean as far as the Horn of Africa, stopping in Ceylon, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula along the way.
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I have been a king in Ceylon, a builder of Aryan monuments under
Chapter 21 2010
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British rule in Ceylon, lasting until independence in 1948, was followed by decades of communal unrest culminating in the civil war.
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Down from the mainland of Asia poured an Aryan drift that built civilisations in Ceylon, Java, and Sumatra.
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British rule in Ceylon, lasting until independence in 1948, was followed by decades of communal unrest culminating in the civil war.
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