Rhodesia
[roh-dee-zhuh]
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noun
(as Southern Rhodesia) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe 1979.
a historical region in S Africa that comprised the British territories of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
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Contemporary Examples of rhodesian
At the head of this five-mile convoy was Ivan Smith, a 22-year-old Rhodesian.
A spring break road trip with your Rhodesian Ridgeback riding shotgun, as David Jefferson recently learned.
A white South African couple buries a Rhodesian illegal immigrant who dies on their property.
Historical Examples of rhodesian
Lieutenant Neumeyer had served with distinction in the Rhodesian campaign.'
The War in South AfricaArthur Conan Doyle
Isn't it enough that you know she could love you as a Rhodesian soldier-policeman?
The RhodesianGertrude Page
If I were only a Rhodesian policeman I should not have come.
The RhodesianGertrude Page
On the Rhodesian side were other grand specimens of British manhood.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. V (of VI)Louis Creswicke
Of the two fine Rhodesian regiments, it is said that only 68 are fit.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.J.G. Millais
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Rhodesia
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Note
Rhodesia was named for Cecil Rhodes, the English industrialist whose British South Africa Company colonized the region at the end of the nineteenth century. He also founded the Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.
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