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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Rhodes /ˈrodz/

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Rhodes
      n 1: 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 Commonwealth and United States
           students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902) [syn:
            Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes]
      2: 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 [syn: Rodhos]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Rhodes
    a rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia
    Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles
    broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece
    to Syria (Acts 21:1), on returning from his third missionary
    journey.

From: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

 Rhodes, same as Rhoda