eelam

English Thesaurus

1. the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state,
definition	:	a politically organized body of people under a single government (noun.group)

part meronym	:	ceylon, democratic socialist republic of sri lanka, sri lanka,
definition	:	a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 (noun.location)