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Slave Island

Slave Island proper noun: a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Proper noun

Slave Island

  1. A suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
    • “It’s very difficult to live, even a loaf of bread is expensive,” said Pereira outside his modest home in Slave Island, a poor enclave of the capital Colombo. “If we take one meal, we skip another.”2022 July 18, “In Sri Lanka capital’s Slave Island, shadows of a crisis”, in Al Jazeera
    • Although, the name Slave Island was used during the colonial period, the name 'Kompannavidiya' was used in the languages of Sinhala and Tamil.2023 February 3, Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama, “Slave Island changed to ’Kompannavidiya’”, in Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
    Synonyms:
    Kompagngna Veediya

Synonyms of Slave Island

  • Kompagngna Veediya

Origin of Slave Island

From the fact that the place was used to hold African slaves by Portuguese colonizers.

Questions about Slave Island

What does Slave Island mean?
Slave Island means a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
What part of speech is Slave Island?
Slave Island is a proper noun.

Words near Slave Island in the dictionary

  1. slave earring
  2. slave earrings
  3. slave fork
  4. slave forks
  5. slave girl
  6. Slave Island
  7. slave labor
  8. slave labour
  9. Slave Lake
  10. slave market
  11. slave markets

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