ceylon

Other forms of ceylon

plural

ceylons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ceylon

What does ceylon mean?

ceylon means "an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ceylon?

ceylon has 2 syllables: cey-lon. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /sɪˈlɑn/.

What is another word for ceylon?

Close synonyms include Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ceylon a common word?

ceylon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ceylon?

9 words rhyme with ceylon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.