1. Rhodes - Noun
2. Rhodes - Proper noun
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)
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
Source: WordNetI could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. Duffy Daugherty
I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. Henry Rollins
Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy. Andy Griffith
He came back to England convinced that Rhodes and his fellow mining capitalists had engineered the war in order to removed the leaders of the Boer republics who stood in the way of the rationalisation of the black labour supply in the gold mines. Peter Cain
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
480s BC * 489 BC : Cities of Rhodes unite and start construction of the new city of Rhodes. Source: Internet