Seychelles
English edit
Etymology edit
After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
the Seychelles
- An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.
Usage notes edit
Treated as singular or plural. The presence of the definite article also varies, though "the Seychelles" is more common.[1]
Hypernyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
country in East Africa
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See also edit
- Countries of the world
- (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]
References edit
- ^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020) “Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, number 1, , pages 1–16
Further reading edit
- Seychelles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Seychelles on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Seychelles on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
- Category:Seychelles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Central Nahuatl edit
Proper noun edit
Seychelles
- Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Seychelles f pl (plural only)
- Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)
Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Seychelles f pl (plural only)
- Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Seychelles f pl
- Alternative spelling of Seicheles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Seychelles f
- Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)