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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
Rho·de·sia       [roh-dee-zhuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.(as Southern Rhodesia) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe 1979.
2.a historical region in S Africa that comprised the British territories of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
—Related forms
Rho·de·sian, adjective, noun
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Rho·de·sia       (rō-dē'zhə)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A region of south-central Africa south of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and comprising modern-day Zambia and Zimbabwe. Probably inhabited since ancient times, it was formerly administered by the British South Africa Company.
  2. See Zimbabwe2.

Rho·de'sian adj. & n.
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rhodesia

noun
a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980 [syn: Zimbabwe] 

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
Rhodesia [(roh-dee-zhuh)]

Former name of Zimbabwe, a nation in southeastern Africa.

Note: Rhodesia was named for Cecil Rhodes, the English industrialist whose British South Africa Company colonized the region at the end of the nineteenth century. He also founded the Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.

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