DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka mean? 

• DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA (noun)
  The noun DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA has 1 sense:

1. a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948

  Familiarity information: DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka"):

capital of Sri Lanka; Colombo (the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka; has one of the largest harbors in the world; is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon)

Kandy (a city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon; a resort and religious center)

Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)

Adam's Peak; Samanala (a mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high))

Meronyms (members of "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka"):

Singhalese; Sinhalese; Sri Lankan (a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka)

Domain member region:

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; LTTE; Tamil Tigers; Tigers; World Tamil Association; World Tamil Movement (a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel)

Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)