Rhodesia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A country that existed in what is now Zimbabwe, originally called Southern Rhodesia, named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes.
• The area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia.
• village/and/civil parish in Bassetlaw (district) Nottinghamshire (county) England (constituent country) . Named after G. Preston Rhodes, chairman of a colliery company.

Origin

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