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Rhodes
[rohdz]
noun
Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
James Ford, 1848–1927, U.S. historian.
a Greek island in the SE Aegean, off the SW coast of Turkey: the largest of the Dodecanese Islands. 542 sq. mi. (1,404 sq. km).
Greek Rhodos.Italian Rodi.a seaport on this island.
Colossus of, a huge bronze statue of Apollo that stood at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes.
Rhodes
1/ əʊ /
noun
a Greek island in the SE Aegean Sea, about 16 km (10 miles) off the Turkish coast: the largest of the Dodecanese and the most easterly island in the Aegean. Capital: Rhodes. Pop (municipality): 55 086 (2001). Area: 1400 sq km (540 sq miles)
a port on this island, in the NE: founded in 408 bc ; of great commercial and political importance in the 3rd century bc ; suffered several earthquakes, notably in 225, when the Colossus was destroyed. Pop: 41 000 (latest est)
Rhodes
2/ əʊ /
noun
Cecil John . 1853–1902, British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa. He made a fortune in diamond and gold mining and, as prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890–96), he helped to extend British territory. He established the annual Rhodes scholarships to Oxford See Rhodes scholarship
Example Sentences
James Young, 81, was travelling home from a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes with his wife when he fell about 5ft while being transported on an airport ambulift.
Rashad Rhodes, assistant coach of Pali High’s junior varsity football team and father of a graduate, said seeing the school community reunite for the celebration was surreal — and proof of the motto “Pali Strong.”
But when he won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and went to England to study at Oxford University, she found someone else.
The show is both genuinely funny and unabashedly silly, and director and choreographer Josh Rhodes has his hands full reining in some of the sitcom dopiness.
McDonnell informed Rhodes through a subordinate that her services would no longer be needed, according to multiple department sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel changes.
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