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Cecil John Rhodes

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Noun

1. cecil j. rhodes, cecil john rhodes, cecil rhodes, rhodes

British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cecil John Rhodes

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British financier and colonizer who became prime minister of Cape Colony in 1890 but was forced to resign in 1896 after attempting to overthrow the Boer regime in the Transvaal. He later helped colonize the region that became known as Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia).

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