Rhodes
pronunciation
How to pronounce Rhodes in British English:
UK [rəudz]
How to pronounce Rhodes in American English:
US
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- 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 Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford Univer
- 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
Word Origin
- Rhodes
- Greek island, one of the Dodecanese, from Greek Rhodos, perhaps from rhodon "rose," or rhoia "pomegranate," but "more likely" [Room] from a pre-Greek name, from Phoenician erod "snake," for the serpents which were said to have anciently infested the island.
Example
- 1. Deputy national security adviser ben rhodes briefed reporters on the meeting .
- 2. Alice was admitted to rhodes farm last november .
- 3. Rhodes said that there were no traffic accidents or other injuries .
- 4. A few months later I sat before an in terview panel of former rhodes scholars .
- 5. During his rule , the ottoman empire encompassed most of the middle east , southeastern europe and rhodes .