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rhodes 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun rhodes
The noun rhodes has 2 senses
- Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes -- (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))
- Rhodes, Rodhos -- (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)