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Rhodesian

adjective, noun

Rhodesian is an adjective meaning “From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-O-D-E-S-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Rhodesian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone from Rhodesia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Rhodesian?

    Rhodesian has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of Rhodesian

    • Rhodesians plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is Rhodesian?

    Rhodesian appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Rhodesian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    Frenchrhodésien (from Rhodesia)
    Germanrhodesisch (from Rhodesia), Rhodesier (Someone from Rhodesia)
    Portugueserodesiano (from Rhodesia)
    Spanishrodesiano (from Rhodesia)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does Rhodesian come from?

    From Rhodesia + -an.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).