Sri Lanka
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- proper noun
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Sri Lanka
- Now in his eighties, Clarke resides in Sri Lanka, where he has been since the mid-1950s.
Examples
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Edith and I, we're actually thinking of going to Sri Lanka next year for our holidays.
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Clarke has been chancellor of the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka since 1979 and of the International Space University since 1989.
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I believe Sri Lanka is such a case.
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The island of Sri Lanka
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In Sri Lanka, identification of the dead was not a high priority in the acute phase.
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Recent extensive surveys in Sri Lanka failed to turn up 19 species represented in museum collections from the region.
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A number of factors were responsible for the strengthening of the Tamil element in northern Sri Lanka in this period.
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The reason for the high percentage of widows can be attributed to the war in Sri Lanka, which was officially brought to an end in May 2009.
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Nearly 450,000 women workers are presently employed in the garment industry, which accounts for 52 percent of Sri Lanka's exports.
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Many tourists visit Sri Lanka to experience its beautiful beaches.
Synonyms
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An old poetic name for the island nation Sri Lanka
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The old name for Sri Lanka, an island in the Indian Ocean
The official name of the country Sri Lanka
Surface Forms
Morphology
S̶r̶i̶ ̶L̶a̶n̶k̶a̶ is a proper name formed from the honorific 'Sri' + the toponym 'Lanka'; a learner who knows these constituents can infer it names a person/place and that 'Lanka' refers to the island/place, but they would not automatically derive the full sense 'an island country in South Asia' or its geographic details. Because the parts signal a place-name structure (partially informative) but do not fully predict the specific country/geography, the item is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Sri Lanka comes from an old Indian language. Here, Sri is a respectful word meaning 'holy' or 'resplendent' and Lanka was the island's name in ancient stories, so the name pictures a 'holy' or 'glorious island'.