Rhodes

USrəudz

معنی فارسی

سسيل رودز

/rōdz/

● سسیل رودز (سرمایه گذار انگلیسی در افریقای جنوبی)

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