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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. 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);
[syn: Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes]

2. 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;
[syn: Rhodes, Rodhos]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Rhodes
    n 1: 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) [syn:
         Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John
         Rhodes]
    2: 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 [syn: Rhodes, Rodhos]