rhodes

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɹəʊdz/
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/ɹəʊdz/ · /ɹoʊdz/ · /ɹəʉdz/ · /ɹɐʉdz/

Definition of rhodes

13 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea.
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name

  1. (countable, uncountable)An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A topographic surname for a person who lived near woodland clearings, or a habitational one for someone from a place so named.
    “Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), English mining magnate and politician.”
  4. (countable, rare, uncountable)A male given name transferred from the surname.
  5. (countable, uncountable)A village in northern Eastern Cape province, South Africa; named for Cecil Rhodes.
  6. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
  7. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
  8. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
  9. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
  10. (countable, uncountable)A village near Middleton, Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8505).
  11. (countable, uncountable)A small commune in Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
  12. (countable, uncountable)A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
  13. (countable, uncountable)An electric piano which produces soft, harmonic-like sounds; a Rhodes piano; named for inventor Harold Rhodes.

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Etymology

From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοιά (rhoiá, “pomegranate”).

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