Associations to the word «Rhodes»

Wiktionary

RHODES, proper noun. An island of the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea.
RHODES, proper noun. A town on the island of Rhodes and the capital of the Dodecanese.
RHODES, proper noun. A French town situated in Moselle department, Lorraine
RHODES, proper noun. An electric piano

Dictionary definition

RHODES, 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).
RHODES, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats