colombo

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymscapital of Sri Lanka

   Broadernational capital

   Part ofSri Lanka

Other forms of colombo

plural

colomboes·

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 colombo

What does colombo mean?

colombo means "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".

How many syllables are in colombo?

colombo has 3 syllables: co-lom-bo. The stress falls on "lom". In IPA it is /kəˈlʌmboʊ/.

What is another word for colombo?

Close synonyms include capital 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 colombo a common word?

colombo 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 colombo?

1 word rhymes with colombo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.