Seychelles
/seɪˈʃɛlz
/ /seɪˈʃɛl/(also the Seychelles) 
A country consisting of a group of about ninety islands in the Indian Ocean, about 1,000 km (600 miles) NE of Madagascar; population 87,500 (est. 2009); languages, French Creole (official), English, French; capital, Victoria.
The islands were uninhabited until the mid 18th century, when the French annexed them. The Seychelles were captured by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars and administered from Mauritius before becoming a separate colony in 1903 and an independent republic within the Commonwealth in 1976.
Rhymes
- parting tool
- parti-partial
- parti pris
- Parti Quebecois
- Parti Québecois
- Parti Québécois
- partisan
- partisanery
- partisanism
- partisanized
- partisanly
- partisan ranger
- partisanry
- partisanship
- partita
- partite
- partition
- partitional
- partitionary
- partition chromatogram
- partition chromatographic
- partition chromatography
- partition coefficient
- partitioner
- partition function