Rhodian

[ roh-dee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the island Rhodes.

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Rhodes.

Rhodian

/ ˈrəʊdɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the island of Rhodes

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Rhodes

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rhodian¹

First recorded in 1585–95; Rhod(es) + -ian

Example Sentences

These are sometimes called Asiatic, Attic, and Rhodian: hence “Atticism” and “Asianism” in this book’s glossary.

From Literature

On his first visit to the house, in 2012, he was admiring its carefully tended collection of Rhodian ceramics and multicolored suzanis when he learned that the place belonged to Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori, whom he’d met through their mutual friend Bruce Chatwin in Florence in the 1980s.

From Wall Street Journal

Artistic pleasure, Art and literature. grown less delicate, required the stimulus of a more sensational effect or a more striking realism, as we may see by the Pergamene and Rhodian schools of sculpture, by the bas-reliefs with the genre subjects drawn from the life of the countryside, or, in literature by the sort of historical writing which became popular with Cleitarchus and Duris, by the studied emotional or rhetorical point of Callimachus, and by the portrayal of country life in Theocritus.

From Project Gutenberg

HERMAGORAS, of Temnos, Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of oratory in Rome, flourished during the first half of the 1st century B.C.

From Project Gutenberg

As soon as the police spies guaranteed the harmlessness of the yacht the governor was hospitable and invited the members of the party to shoot the red-legged partridges and woodcock upon the Rhodian uplands.

From Project Gutenberg