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Definition of Southern 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 Southern rhodesia
1. Proper noun. (historical) a name used to refer to the area now called Zimbabwe, officially introduced in 1901. A self-governing colony of Britain from 1923, its government began to refer to itself simply as Rhodesia in 1964, when Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. The name Zimbabwe was adopted in 1980. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Rhodesia
Literary usage of Southern rhodesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The area above 3000 feet in southern rhodesia, most of which is adapted for the
... Gold has been worked in southern rhodesia from ancient times, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The area above 3000 feet in southern rhodesia, most of which is adapted for the
residence ... Gold has been worked in southern rhodesia from ancient times, ..."
3. 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.
Area about 246000 sq. miles; population about 900000, of whom 12000 are ..."
4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"southern rhodesia Position and Boundaries.—southern rhodesia lies immediately to
the north of the Transvaal Colony, from which it is separated by the ..."
5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Production of flue- cured tobacco, mainly in southern rhodesia, ... The eastern
section runs along the watershed of southern rhodesia to serve the main ..."
6. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas, Reginald Laurence Antrobus, Charles Alexander Harris, Henry Charles Miller Lambert, John Davenport Rogers, Hugh Edward Egerton (1900)
"southern rhodesia forms the most important of the three divisions into which the
British South Africa Company have divided their territories, ..."