Rhodesia

[roh-dee-zhuh]

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).

Related formsRho·de·sian, adjective, noun

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Examples from the Web for rhodesian

Contemporary Examples of rhodesian

At the head of this five-mile convoy was Ivan Smith, a 22-year-old Rhodesian.
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Nina Strochlic
November 23, 2014
A spring break road trip with your Rhodesian Ridgeback riding shotgun, as David Jefferson recently learned.
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David Jefferson
April 17, 2012
A white South African couple buries a Rhodesian illegal immigrant who dies on their property.
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November 29, 2010

Historical Examples of rhodesian

Lieutenant Neumeyer had served with distinction in the Rhodesian campaign.'
The War in South Africa
Arthur Conan Doyle
Isn't it enough that you know she could love you as a Rhodesian soldier-policeman?
The Rhodesian
Gertrude Page
If I were only a Rhodesian policeman I should not have come.
The Rhodesian
Gertrude 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

British Dictionary definitions for rhodesian

Rhodesian

adjective

of or relating to the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) or its inhabitants

noun

a native or inhabitant of the former Rhodesia

Rhodesia

noun

a former name (1964–79) for Zimbabwe

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rhodesian in Culture

Rhodesia

[(roh-dee-zhuh)]

Former name of Zimbabwe, a nation in southeastern Africa.

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.