What is the name meaning of RHODES. Phrases containing RHODES
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RHODES
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English
English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in woodland (see Rode 3). This, the most common form of the name, has been influenced in spelling by the English name of the Greek island of Rhodes (Greek Rhodos), with which there is no connection. There is no connection, either, with modern English road (Old English rÄd ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century.
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Scottish and English (of Norman origin)
Scottish and English (of Norman origin) : habitational name for someone from Rots near Caen in Normandy, probably named with the Germanic element rod ‘clearing’. Compare Rhodes. This was the original home of a family de Ros, who were established in Kent in 1130.Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various places called Ross or Roos(e), deriving the name from Welsh rhós ‘upland’ or moorland, or from a British ancestor of this word, which also had the sense ‘promontory’. This is the sense of the cognate Gaelic word ros. Known sources of the surname include Roos in Humberside (formerly in East Yorkshire) and the region of northern Scotland known as Ross. Other possible sources are Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, Ross in Northumbria (which is on a promontory), and Roose in LancashireEnglish and German : from the Germanic personal name Rozzo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element hrÅd ‘renown’, introduced into England by the Normans in the form Roce.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a breeder or keeper of horses, from Middle High German ros, German Ross ‘horse’; perhaps also a nickname for someone thought to resemble a horse or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a horse.Jewish : Americanized form of Rose 3.
Biblical
same as Rhoda
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Blind (from the Roman clan name Caecilius). Famous bearers: the African state of Rhodesia is...
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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English
English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.
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English
English : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from Old English grēne ‘green’ + rod ‘clearing’ (see Rhodes).This name is first recorded in Rochdale in 1541 in the spelling Greneroade.
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Catalan and Southern French (Rodés)
Catalan and Southern French (Rodés) : habitational name from any of several places named Rodés, mainly those in El Pallars and El Conflent districts, in northern Catalonia. This has the same origin as Occitan Rodés (Rodez in French), in Avairon department (southern France), which is first recorded in the 6th century in the Latin form Rutensis, apparently from the name of the Gaulish tribal name Ruteni.Catalan : variant of Roda, from Catalan rodes, the plural of roda ‘wheel’.English : variant of Rhodes.
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Biblical English
A rose.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various minor places in northern England so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + rod ‘clearing’ (see Rhodes).
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English American Latin
Blind (from the Roman clan name Caecilius). Famous bearers: the African state of Rhodesia is...
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English
English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant of Rode 1.
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Blind (from the Roman clan name Caecilius). Famous bearers: the African state of Rhodesia is...
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American, Australian, Biblical, British, English, French, Greek
Garden of Roses; A Rose; Dweller by the Crosses; Where Roses Grow
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German
German : from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with the first element hrÅd ‘renown’. Compare Robert, Rudiger.North German, Danish, and English : topographic name for someone who lived on land cleared for cultivation or in a clearing in woodland, from Middle Low German rode, Danish rothe, Old English rod. Compare English Rhodes.English : habitational name from any of the many places named with this word, as for example Rode in Cheshire.Slovenian : topographic name from the adjective rod ‘barren’, denoting someone who lived on a barren land.Slovenian : nickname from the Slovenian dialect word rode ‘person with disheveled hair’, a derivative of rod ‘curly’ or ‘hairy’.
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Blind (from the Roman clan name Caecilius). Famous bearers: the African state of Rhodesia is...
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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n.
A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
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Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.
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A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.