SRI LANKAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sri Lankan mean? 

• SRI LANKAN (noun)
  The noun SRI LANKAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka

  Familiarity information: SRI LANKAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SRI LANKAN (adjective)
  The adjective SRI LANKAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: SRI LANKAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SRI LANKAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Sri Lankan" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Holonyms ("Sri Lankan" is a member of...):

Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)

• SRI LANKAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Ceylonese; Sri Lankan

Context example:

Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels

Pertainym:

Ceylon (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India)

Derivation:

Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)

 Context examples 

A portable 3-D scanning device developed by Sri Lankan and US researchers can quickly measure limb enlargement of patients with the disfiguring condition elephantiasis that resulted from lymphatic filariasis infection.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

For their study, the Sri Lankan research team built a set of identical walls from materials commonly used to build homes in the tropics, including brick, cement blocks, mud bricks and Cabook – bricks made from laterite soil.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)