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Zeyloon

Zeyloon is the obsolete form of Ceylon.

Meaning of Ceylon

Proper noun

Ceylon

  1. (archaic, historical) 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
  2. (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name.
  3. An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.

See all 4 meanings of Ceylon

Questions about Zeyloon

What is Zeyloon the obsolete form of?
Zeyloon is the obsolete form of Ceylon.

Words near Zeyloon in the dictionary

  1. zeydie
  2. zeydies
  3. Zeylan
  4. zeylanite
  5. zeylasteral
  6. Zeyloon
  7. Zeynab
  8. Zeynep
  9. Zeytoun
  10. ZEZ
  11. zeze

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zeyloon (page history and authors); 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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