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

1 sense of cecil 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)