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TAMIL EELAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tamil Eelam mean?
• TAMIL EELAM (noun)
The noun TAMIL EELAM has 1 sense:
1. the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for
Familiarity information: TAMIL EELAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Eelam; Tamil Eelam
Instance hypernyms:
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
Holonyms ("Tamil Eelam" is a part of...):
Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)
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