Definition of Rhodes scholar

1. Noun. A student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University.

Generic synonyms: Scholar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhodes Scholar

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Rhizopus stolonifer
Rho(D) immunoglobulin
Rhoda
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Rhode
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island bent
Rhode Island red
Rhode Islander
Rhode Islanders
Rhodes
Rhodes scholar (current term)
Rhodesia
Rhodesian
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Rhodesian malignant theileriosis
Rhodesian man
Rhodesian ridgeback
Rhodesian trypanosomiasis
Rhodesians
Rhodian
Rhodie
Rhodie bar
Rhodie bars
Rhodies

Literary usage of Rhodes scholar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhodes Scholarships by George Robert. Parkin (1912)
"CHAPTER IX THE SCHOLAR A MAN elected as a Rhodes scholar soon discovers that he has assumed a peculiar responsibility, and one from which he will find it ..."

2. The Rhodes Scholarships by George Robert Parkin (1912)
"CHAPTER IX THE SCHOLAR A man elected as a Rhodes scholar soon discovers that he has assumed a peculiar responsibility, and one from which he will find it ..."

3. Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships by Richard Frederick Scholz, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (1907)
"... AS IT IS OR AS IT HAS SEEMED TO A Rhodes scholar What manner of place is Oxford ? Every one knows Oxford; and yet, how little is Oxford understood—even ..."

4. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"It seems as though our State Department might do well to interest itself in the graduate American Rhodes scholar for much the same reasons as are held by ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"It seems as though our State Department might do well to interest itself in the graduate American Rhodes scholar for much the same reasons as are held by ..."

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