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单词 rhodes
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Rhodesn.

Brit. /rəʊdz/, U.S. /roʊdz/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Rhodes.
Etymology: < the name of Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902), British imperialist and financier, and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890–6).
I. Compounds
1.
a. Rhodes scholarship n. any of a number of international scholarships awarded annually since 1902 for study at the University of Oxford. Similarly in Rhodes Visiting Fellowship.Established under the terms of Rhodes's will for the purpose of promoting unity among English-speaking countries, the scholarships are administered by the Rhodes Trust and were originally restricted to students from the British Empire and the United States. Candidates from Germany were first considered in 1903.
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society > education > educational administration > [noun] > scholarships
scholarship1535
demyship1536
burse1560
exhibition1631
travelling fellowship1694
bursary1733
travelling scholarship1798
studentship1802
Newcastle1832
pupilship1838
Newcastle1845
state scholarship1849
Ireland1861
bursarship1864
schol1888
freeship1893
Rhodes scholarship1902
Fulbright1952
schoolmaster studentship1957
assisted place1977
Rhodes1994
1902 G. Calderon Adventures Downy V. Green xvi. 97 He had done three years at Harvard, and had come up with a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford.
1926 Amer. Oxonian July 99 If I were planning on going after a Rhodes Scholarship next year, I should read a great deal on foreign affairs.
1949 Cavalier Daily (Univ. Virginia) 22 Oct. 1/2 Selected as the University's eligible candidates for this year's Rhodes Scholarship.
1977 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 3 June 850/1 The generosity of the Rhodes Trustees enables Lady Margaret Hall to invite applications for a Rhodes Visiting Fellowship for Women tenable at the college for two years.
2004 J. T. Bethell et al. Harvard 308 A Rhodes Scholarship on one's résumé is a ‘dazzler’ that outshines others.
b. Rhodes scholar n. a person receiving a Rhodes scholarship.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student with scholarship
scholar1593
exhibitioner1679
Rhodes scholar1902
Rhodesian1905
Fulbrighter1953
Rhodes1995
schoolmaster student1997
1902 G. Calderon Adventures Downy V. Green xvi. 101 This is Mr. Cheney, Rhodes Scholar of Pusey.
1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson viii. 129 The American Rhodes Scholars..are a noble, rather than a comfortable, element in the social life of the University.
1934 C. Stead Seven Poor Men of Sydney vi. 186 Handley, the Rhodes Scholar,..had shoulders like an ox.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 415/1 Rhodes Scholars cannot reasonably be expected, in all cases, to be paragons of intellect, literary and scholastic attainments, sporting ability, moral force, public spirit and leadership.
2004 J. T. Bethell et al. Harvard 308 Harvard's president..was a Rhodes scholar; so were at least 20 faculty members.
2. Rhodes grass n. (also Rhodes' grass) a perennial African grass, Chloris gayana, with spikelets arranged in umbellate spikes at the top of the stem, which is now widely cultivated in warmer regions of the world as a pasture and fodder grass. Also (with distinguishing word): any of various other tropical grasses of the genus Chloris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture
windlestrawc1000
red grass1582
spring grass1643
sweet-grass1709
herd-grass1747
Guinea grass1756
vernal grass1762
vernal1771
Paspalum1772
buffalo grass1784
Rhode Island bent1790
red-top1792
finetop1824
kangaroo-grass1827
gamagrass1831
sweet vernal grass1839
yellow-top1839
grama1844
sesame grass1845
sacate1848
Para grass1850
Hungarian1859
alfilaria1860
sacaton1865
Mitchell grass1867
teosinte1877
Landsborough grass1883
turnip-grass1889
brown top1891
ichu1891
manna1897
Rhodes grass1903
Sudan1911
Kikuyu grass1913
never-fail1923
buffel grass1955
1903 D. E. Hutchins Rep. Matopo Park 6 There is the so-called ‘Rhodes grass’ (Chloris guayana), which would probably succeed better here than at ‘Groote Schuur’.
1915 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr. IV. 20 In some districts Chloris gayana (Rhodes' grass) and Phalaris coerulescens..have also been found very valuable.
1929 J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 179Rhodes grass’, a native of Africa,..is cultivated in the S.W. States of N. America, in Hawaii, and in Australia.
1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill i. 87 The settlers were felling scrub..burning it off and sowing it to rhodes-grass..making fine grass paddocks.
1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics v. 277 Chloris gayana Kunth, Rhodesgrass, an introduced perennial with stout stolons and tall culms, now is frequent in pastures, in abandoned fields, and on roadsides in southern Texas.
1991 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles 1083 C[hloris] divaricata R.Br.—Australian Rhodes-grass.
2002 A. Fuller Don't let's go to Dogs Tonight 110 ‘What are you going to do?’ I ask, hopping over a patch of paper thorns and ducking under the barbed wire as Mum strides through the Rhodes grass toward the native cows.
II. Simple uses.
3. = Rhodes scholarship n. at sense 1a.
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society > education > educational administration > [noun] > scholarships
scholarship1535
demyship1536
burse1560
exhibition1631
travelling fellowship1694
bursary1733
travelling scholarship1798
studentship1802
Newcastle1832
pupilship1838
Newcastle1845
state scholarship1849
Ireland1861
bursarship1864
schol1888
freeship1893
Rhodes scholarship1902
Fulbright1952
schoolmaster studentship1957
assisted place1977
Rhodes1994
1994 J. Stiehm in D. T. Goldberg Multiculturalism v. 153 If one won a Rhodes when none were available to women or blacks, one did so with less than half of today's competition.
2001 D. Halberstam War in Time of Peace xxxix. 429 Though he had graduated high in his class, he had just missed the Rhodes.
2004 A. S. Ilchman et al. in A. S. Ilchman et al. Lucky Few & Worthy Many i. 9 The Commonwealth Fund in New York..created in 1924 a ‘reverse Rhodes’ called Harkness Fellows... When the Fulbright program was founded in 1946, Senator Fulbright claimed lineage from his Rhodes experience.
4. = Rhodes scholar n. at sense 1b.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student with scholarship
scholar1593
exhibitioner1679
Rhodes scholar1902
Rhodesian1905
Fulbrighter1953
Rhodes1995
schoolmaster student1997
1995 E. Drew On the Edge xvii. 235 He's been to Yale and was a Rhodes.
1999 J. Axtell Pleasures of Academe vii. 134 Only third-year Rhodes were allowed to marry.
2001 D. Halberstam War in Time of Peace xxxix. 429 It was always incumbent on someone who was a Rhodes to show that he was a real army man..and a straight shooter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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