Ceylon
/sɪˈlɒn/US/seɪˈlɑn/
Ceylon proper noun: former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .
Proper noun
Ceylon
- 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.2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55
- A male given name transferred from the place name.
- An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.
Noun
Ceylon (countable and uncountable, plural Ceylons)
Ceylon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Ceylon in Hindi
- old name for Sri Lanka
- सेलोन selon, सिंहल sĩhal
Ceylon in Tamil
- old name for Sri Lanka
- சிலோன் cilōṉ
Ceylon in Urdu
- old name for Sri Lanka
- سنہل sinhal
Ceylon in Bengali
- old name for Sri Lanka
- সিংহল śiṅghôl
More languagesFewer languages
- Ceylon in Sanskrit
- सिंहल siṃhala
- Ceylon in Sinhala
- සෙයිලොන් seyilon
- Ceylon in Arabic
- سِيلَان sīlān
- Ceylon in Malay
- Sailan, Selan
- Ceylon in Indonesian
- Ceylon
- Ceylon in Persian
- سیلان saylân
- Ceylon in Thai
- ซีลอน siil-on
- Ceylon in Vietnamese
- Tích Lan
- Ceylon in Myanmar
- စီလုံ cilum
Forms of Ceylon
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | Ceylone |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Zeyloon |
| Noun | |
| plural | Ceylons |
Origin of Ceylon
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.
Words formed from Ceylon
Phrases with Ceylon
Words that rhyme with Ceylon
Questions about Ceylon
- What does Ceylon mean?
- Ceylon means former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .
- What is Ceylon in Hindi?
- Ceylon in Hindi is सेलोन (selon), सिंहल (sĩhal). See Ceylon meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Ceylon?
- Ceylon can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Ceylon?
- Ceylon is pronounced /sɪˈlɒn/ (UK).
Words near Ceylon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Ceylon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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