Definitions for Rhodes
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1. Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodesnoun

   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. Rhodes, Rodhosnoun

   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

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1. Rhodesnoun

   An island of the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea.

2. Rhodesnoun

   A town on the island of Rhodes and the capital of the Dodecanese.

3. Rhodesnoun

   A french town situated in Moselle department, Lorraine

4. Rhodesnoun

   A Fender electric piano

5. Etymology: From Ῥόδος.

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1. Rhodes

   Rhodes ( (listen); Greek: Ρόδος, romanized: Ródos [ˈroðos]) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the overall Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. In 2022, the island had a population of 124,851 people. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens. Rhodes has several nicknames, such as "Island of the Sun" due to its patron sun god Helios, "The Pearl Island", and "The Island of the Knights", named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island from 1310 to 1522.Historically, Rhodes was famous for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.

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1. rhodes

   Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in Greece, situated in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is known for its ancient ruins, beaches, and the medieval town of Rhodes, which features the impressive historic site of the Palace of the Grand Masters. The island is also famous for the former Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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1. Rhodes

   Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 115,490, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens and southwest of the Anatolian coast in Turkey. Historically, Rhodes was famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.

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1. Rhodes

   a Turkish island in the Mediterranean, 12 m. distant from the SW, coast of Asia Minor, area 49 m. by 21 m.; mountainous and woody; has a fine climate and a fertile soil, which produces fruit in abundance, also some grain; it is ill developed, and has a retrogressive population, most of whom are Greeks; sponges, chief export; figures considerably in ancient classic history; was occupied by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John for more than two centuries, and was taken from them by the Turks in 1523.

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1. rhodes

   (Lat. Rhodus, Gr. Rhodos.). An island of Asiatic Turkey, in the Mediterranean, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor, long an important, wealthy, and independent state of ancient Greece. At the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, Rhodes was one of those maritime states which were subject to Athens; but in the twentieth year of the war (412), it joined the Spartan alliance, and the oligarchal party, which had been depressed, and their leaders, the Eratidæ, expelled, recovered their former power under Dories. In 408 the capital, called Rhodus, was built. The history of the island now presents a series of conflicts between the democratical and oligarchal parties, and of subjection to Athens and Sparta in turn, till the end of the Social war, 355, when its independence was acknowledged. Then followed a conflict with the princes of Caria, during which the island was for a time subject to Artemisia. At the Macedonian conquest, they submitted to Alexander; but upon his death they expelled the Macedonian garrison. In the ensuing wars they formed an alliance with Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, and their city, Rhodus, endured a most famous siege by the forces of Demetrius Poliorcetes, who at length, in admiration of the valor of the besieged, presented them with the engines he had used against the city, from the sale of which they defrayed the cost of the celebrated Colossus. The state now for a long time flourished with great maritime power. At length they came into connection with the Romans, whose alliance they joined in the war against Philip III. of Macedon. In the ensuing war with Antiochus, the Rhodians gave the Romans great aid with their fleet. A temporary interruption of their alliance with Rome was caused by their espousing the cause of Perseus, for which they were severely punished, 168; but they recovered the favor of Rome by the important naval aid they rendered in the Mithridatic war. In the civil wars they took part with Cæsar, and suffered in consequence from Cassius, 42. They were at length deprived of their independence by Claudius. In 1309 the island came into the possession of the Knights of St. John (see Saint John of Jerusalem), who baffled every effort made by Mahomet II., the conqueror of Constantinople, to drive them from the island, and held it until they were compelled to evacuate it by Solyman the Great in 1522, after one of the most memorable sieges recorded in history.

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1. Rhodes

   From the Greek rhodon, a rose; expresses “the isle of roses.”

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1. RHODES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rhodes is ranked #343 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Rhodes surname appeared 90,670 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 31 would have the surname Rhodes.
   
   74.7% or 67,785 total occurrences were White.
   20% or 18,170 total occurrences were Black.
   2.1% or 1,968 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 1,741 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 562 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 435 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Aegean Island
   • Dodecanese
   • Colonizer
   • Financier

Anagrams for Rhodes »

1. dehors

2. hordes

3. horsed

4. shored

5. shoder

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Rhodes in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Rhodes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Rhodes in a Sentence

1. Jack Kellam:

   (Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford) is NOT an attempt to 'rewrite history', but its opposite - a campaign to bring its uncomfortable truths to salience.

2. David Tawil:

   (Rhodes) has made a very public statement about wanting Chapter 9 applied to the Commonwealth, it's a big deal.

3. United We Win spokesperson:

   Iowa Democrats want to support a leader with a vision for our country's future, and a Rhodes Scholar mayor is exactly what we need -- but Cory Booker is the only one with a record of delivering real change both in Washington and in Cory Booker own community, our party needs to rally around a candidate with a progressive platform and a pragmatic, results-oriented outlook in order to beat Donald Trump. Cory Booker exemplifies those qualities better than any other candidate, whether they're a fellow Rhodes Scholar mayor or not.

4. Jeff Fager:

   Every day, the people of this news organization are turning in the kind of high-quality reporting that is in keeping with our identity and heritage as the home of the best in broadcast journalism, I am confident that this record of achievement will only get better with David Rhodes.

5. Nelson Mandela:

   By combining our name with that of Cecil John Rhodes in this initiative is to signal a closing of the circle and a coming together of two strands in our history.

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