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Definition of Rhodesia
1. Noun. A landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980.
Generic synonyms: African Country, African Nation
Terms within: Capital Of Zimbabwe, Harare, Salisbury, Bulawayo, Victoria, Victoria Falls, Zambezi, Zambezi River
Group relationships: Africa
Member holonyms: Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Zimbabwean
Derivative terms: Rhodesian, Zimbabwean
Definition of Rhodesia
1. Proper noun. (historical) A former name of what is now Zimbabwe, used from 1964 to 1979. ¹
2. Proper noun. (historical) A former name of the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia, used from 1895 to 1964. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhodesia
Literary usage of Rhodesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Inter-territorial roads, railways, European agriculture in the Rhodesia*, posts
and telegraphs, education except African primary and secondary education and ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The river Zambesi, which traverses it from west to east, divides it into the two
portions called Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesia (area ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Sir George visited Rhodesia in 1003-4, and drew up a scheme which included ...
Although Rhodesia was affected by the commercial depression which prevailed ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The river Zambesi, which traverses it from west to east, divides it into the two
portions called Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesia (area ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"It is divided into Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia by the Zambesi River.
... At present the Protestant missionary societies in Rhodesia are: the ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Sir George visited Rhodesia in 1903-4, and drew up a scheme which included ...
Although Rhodesia was affected by the commercial depression which prevailed ..."
7. South African Journal of Science by South African Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"BY FP MENNELL, FGS Curator of the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo. The last few years
have inaugurated a new era in the history of the South African Diamond ..."
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