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Definition of Ceylonese
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture. "Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels"
Definition of Ceylonese
1. a. Of or pertaining to Ceylon.
Definition of Ceylonese
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Ceylon. ¹
2. Noun. A native of Ceylon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceylonese
Literary usage of Ceylonese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1804)
"The extreme indolence into which the ceylonese are at present sunk, makes them
employ every expedient to ... RELIGION of die ceylonese. [From the same Work. ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"Analyses made in Colombo of ceylonese Varieties of Ironstone and Limestone.
By GEORGE MIDDLE-TON, Esq. Apothecary to the Forces. (Communicated by Sir JAMES ..."
3. Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam: The Record of Seven Years' Residence in the Island by Caroline Corner (1908)
"... CHAPTER XXXII The ceylonese credit-system—Cynthia's resolve— The tea-planter
and his story. TH E life of the tea-planter ..."
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