English Explanatory Dictionary

Rhodes

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea.
  2. A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.
name
  1. A topographic surname for a person who lived near woodland clearings, or a habitational one for someone from a place so named.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A village in northern Eastern Cape province, South Africa; named for Cecil Rhodes.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. An unincorporated community in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
  6. A minor city in Marshall County, Iowa; named for Conway B. Rhodes.
  7. An unincorporated community in Bentley Township, Gladwin County, Michigan; named for Murry Bentley Rhodes.
  8. A census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana.
  9. A village near Middleton, Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8505).
  10. A small commune in Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
  11. A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
  12. An electric piano which produces soft, harmonic-like sounds; a Rhodes piano; named for inventor Harold Rhodes.

Pronunciation

/ɹəʊdz/ /ɹoʊdz/ en-us-roads.ogg /ɹəʉdz/ /ɹɐʉdz/

Word forms

Rhodes Rhodeses Rhoades Rhoads Rodes Roades Royds Rhode

Etymology

From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοιά (rhoiá, “pomegranate”).

Derived words

Colossus of Rhodes Knight of Rhodes rhodesite Rhodian Rhodiot Rhodesia Rhodes grass

Translations

Albanian: Rhodos Arabic: رُودُس Armenian: Հռոդոս Basque: Rodas Belarusian: Родас Bulgarian: Родос Catalan: Rodes Chinese Mandarin: 羅得島 /罗得岛 Czech: Rhodos Danish: Rhodos Dutch: Rodos Esperanto: Rodoso Estonian: Rhodos Finnish: Rodos French: Rhodes Middle French: Roddes Galician: Rodas Georgian: როდოსი German: Rhodos Greek: Ρόδος Ancient Greek: Ῥόδος Hebrew: רודוס Hindi: रोड्स Hungarian: Rodosz Irish: Ródas Italian: Rodi Japanese: ロードス島 Japanese: ロードス市 Korean: 로도스 섬 Ladino: Rodes Ladino: Rodi Latin: Rhodus Latin: Rhodos Latvian: Roda Lithuanian: Rodas Macedonian: Родос Maltese: Rodì Norwegian Bokmål: Rhodos Norwegian Nynorsk: Ródos Persian: رودس Polish: Rodos Portuguese: Rodes Romanian: Rodos
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