Ceylon
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ceylon in British English:
UK [sɪ'lɑn]
How to pronounce Ceylon in American English:
US [sɪˈlɑn, se-]
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- Noun:
- an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
- a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
Word Origin
- Ceylon
- Portuguese form of Sri Lanka (q.v.). Related: Ceylonese.
Example
- 1. A simple class will help you understand ceylon 's approach .
- 2. Finally , note the syntax for switch statements in ceylon , which differs from both c and the java language .
- 3. Because ceylon is still under development , it 's unknown whether it will find a place in the ranks of popular languages in use today .
- 4. As king has said , ceylon is a community effort and therefore needs software engineers and testers to help design , build , and validate the language and sdk .
- 5. His answer is ceylon , a statically typed language that retains some of the best features of the java language ( and runs on the jvm ) but improves on that language 's readability , built-in modularity , and the incorporation of functional language features like high-order functions .