Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rhodes

2 senses of rhodes

Sense 1
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))
       INSTANCE OF=> financier, moneyman -- (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
       INSTANCE OF=> colonizer, coloniser -- (someone who helps to found a colony)

Sense 2
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> Aegean island -- (an island in the Aegean Sea)