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say it: SAY-shelz
seychelles is a noun meaning "a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976
a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seychelles come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.