Rhodesia

From Rhodes +‎ -ia, after Cecil Rhodes, director of the British South Africa Company.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈdiːʃə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈdiːʒə/

Rhodesia

2. (historical) A former country in Southern Africa, in what is now Zimbabwe, originally called Southern Rhodesia, named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes. [used from 1964 to 1980]
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 158:

     If you did that in Rhodesia, you could be punished with many years in prison.

   • 2018 April 20, Bard Wilkinson, “Absolute monarch renames Swaziland ‘eSwatini’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana.

3. (historical) A historical region of Southern Africa, the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia. [used from 1895 to 1964]

Named after G. Preston Rhodes, chairman of a colliery company.

Rhodesia

1. A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5680). ^[1]

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Rhodesia f sg (genitive Rhodesiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Rhodesia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• IPA^(key): /roˈdesja/ [roˈð̞e.sja]
• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: Rho‧de‧sia

Rhodesia f

1. alternative form of Rodesia