Crossword-Solution: COLOMBO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colombo | n. | See Calumba. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “COLOMBO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Economic and legislative capital of Sri Lanka | 1 answer |
| the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka | 1 answer |
| is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon | 1 answer |
| has one of the largest harbors in the world | 1 answer |
| Sri Lankan metropolis | 1 answer |
| Sri Lanka's capital | 1 answer |
| Sri Lanka seaport | 1 answer |
| South Asian capital where Arthur C. Clarke is buried | 1 answer |
| SRI Lankan capital | 1 answer |
| Explorer's birth name | 1 answer |
| Cristoforo ___ | 1 answer |
| Ceylonese city | 1 answer |
| Capital of the island of Ceylon. | 1 answer |
| Capital of Sri Lanka | 1 answer |
| Capital of Ceylon. | 1 answer |
| CEYLONESE region | 1 answer |
| CEYLONESE capital | 1 answer |
| Asian capital on the Indian Ocean | 1 answer |
| Sri Lanka capital | 3 answers |
| ABORIGINE SRI LANKA | 11 answers |
| Ceylon capital | 11 answers |
| Asia capital | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLOMBO (5)
Amongst the steerage passengers was a Major—in the English army—returning from leave to rejoin his regiment at Colombo.
Here Colombo met the descendants of those brave Norsemen who in the tenth century had settled in Greenland and who had visited America in the eleventh century, when Leif's vessel had been blown to the coast of Vineland, or Labrador.
The rights were secured for the peninsula; Colombo and his friends organized the Italian Edison Company, and erected at Milan the first central station in that country.
And whatever was not Island McGill was outlandish and barbarian; and well she knew, for did not her seafaring sons bring home report of that world and its ungodly ways? * * * * * It was from the skipper of a Glasgow tramp, as passenger from Colombo to Rangoon, that I had first learned of the existence of Island McGill; and it was from him that I had carried the letter that gave me entrance to the house of Mrs.
But the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: “America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa.” His name, and that of his family, is always written Colombo, in the Italian papers which refer to them, for more than one hundred years before his time.
Quotes with COLOMBO (3)
Today I prayed for Boston, for America, my home away from home. Today, I realized how lucky we Sri Lankans are to have peace in our country. How I feel today, hearing of the bombs going off in the city brings back memories of how I used to feel four years ago in Sri Lanka when the LTTE was setting off bombs all around Colombo. That feeling I used to get when I hear about a bomb blast, the goosebumps, the school evacuation drills, the breaking news footage, and most of all, th…
It was a roadblock, manned by an officer and several other soldiers. Sivaram and the trishaw driver were ordered out of the vehicle, and I was told to stay where I was. The soldiers held their rifl es aimed and ready as the offi cer interrogated the trishaw driver, a Muslim man, who fumbled out his documents. He was soon allowed to get back in his trishaw. When it was Sivaram’s turn, he just stood there, completely quiet. After several questions, the offi cer started screaming a…
Have you seen Sam?” Mary asked.“What do you want with Sam?”“I can’t take care of all those littles with just John to help me.” Howard shrugged. “Who asked you to?” That was too much. Mary was tall and strong. Howard, though a boy, was smaller. Mary took two steps toward him, pushing her face right into his. “Listen, you little worm. If I don’t take care of those kids, they’ll die. Do you understand that? There are babies in there who need to be fed and need to be changed, and…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).