NOUN | person | Cecil J. Rhodes, Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes | British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa |
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Meaning | 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). | |
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Synonyms | Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes | |
Instance of | colonizer, coloniser | someone who helps to found a colony |
financier, moneyman | A person skilled in large scale financial transactions | |
Spanish | Cecil John Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes | |
Catalan | Cecil Rhodes |
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