Definition of Rhodes

1. Noun. British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902).


2. Noun. A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes.
Exact synonyms: Rodhos
Group relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic, Dhodhekanisos, Dodecanese
Generic synonyms: Aegean Island

Definition of Rhodes

1. Proper noun. An island of the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea. ¹

2. Proper noun. A town on the island of Rhodes and the capital of the Dodecanese. ¹

3. Proper noun. A french town situated in Moselle department, Lorraine ¹

4. Proper noun. A Fender electric piano ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhodes

Rhizopogon idahoensis
Rhizopogonaceae
Rhizopus nigricans
Rhizopus stolonifer
Rho(D) immunoglobulin
Rhoda
Rhodanthe manglesii
Rhode
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island bent
Rhode Island red
Rhode Islander
Rhode Islanders
Rhodes (current term)
Rhodes scholar
Rhodesia
Rhodesian
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Rhodesian malignant theileriosis
Rhodesian man
Rhodesian ridgeback
Rhodesian trypanosomiasis
Rhodesians
Rhodian
Rhodie
Rhodie bar

Literary usage of Rhodes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"(JA Symington) Curious Tombstone, Pontefract. (GP Rhodes) Arms of the ... (GPRhodes) Leeds from John o' Gaunt's Hill. (A. Barraud) The Moot Hall, ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1858)
"Rhodes, 901, 4s. 6d. The Temple of Love, a Masque presented by the ... Rhodes, 904, 10s. A Crowne for a Conqueror, and Too late to call back Yesterday. ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"Rhodes, 1650,6s. Gd. The fatall Dowry, a Tragedy, written by P(hilip) ... Rhodes, 1654, is-W- The great Duke of Florence, a Comedy. London, 1636. 4to. ..."

4. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"It is more of Rhodes the Harbour of the likely that the Rhodians compelled Galleys, the southern the Harbour these corsairs, who always abounded of ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The original inhabitants of Rhodes are unknown, but at the dawn of history the ... In the earliest period of Hellenic migrations Rhodes was overrun by the ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The island forms a sanjak or district of the Turkish province of the Isles of the White Sea, and its capital, Rhodes (qv).is the seat of a pasha. ..."

7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"Rhodes scholars. Oxford view of the American Rhodes scholars. FI Wylie. Nation. ... Rhodes scholars from the United States. DS Jordan. Nation. 87: 436. ..."

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