Rhode

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English Rode, from Old English rod, rodu and/or Old English hrēod.

The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.

Proper noun

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Rhode (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodes)

A habitational surname

  1. for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place so named.
  2. for a person who lived near a reed bed.
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Etymology 2

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From Ancient Greek Ῥόδη (Rhódē).

Proper noun

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Rhode

  1. (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, the oldest Oceanid, a daughter of Tethys and Oceanus
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Latin

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Proper noun

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Rhode

  1. vocative singular of Rhodus