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English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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Scottish and English (of Norman origin)
Scottish and English (of Norman origin) : habitational name for someone from Rots near Caen in Normandy, probably named with the Germanic element rod ‘clearing’. Compare Rhodes. This was the original home of a family de Ros, who were established in Kent in 1130.Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various places called Ross or Roos(e), deriving the name from Welsh rhós ‘upland’ or moorland, or from a British ancestor of this word, which also had the sense ‘promontory’. This is the sense of the cognate Gaelic word ros. Known sources of the surname include Roos in Humberside (formerly in East Yorkshire) and the region of northern Scotland known as Ross. Other possible sources are Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, Ross in Northumbria (which is on a promontory), and Roose in LancashireEnglish and German : from the Germanic personal name Rozzo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element hrÅd ‘renown’, introduced into England by the Normans in the form Roce.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a breeder or keeper of horses, from Middle High German ros, German Ross ‘horse’; perhaps also a nickname for someone thought to resemble a horse or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a horse.Jewish : Americanized form of Rose 3.
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English : patronymic from Mann 1 and 2.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó MainnÃn ‘descendant of MainnÃn’, probably an assimilated form of MainchÃn, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó MaingÃn and Anglicized as Mangan.Anstice Manning, widow of Richard Manning of Dartmouth, England, came to MA with her children in 1679. Her great-great-grandson Robert, born at Salem, MA, in 1784, was the uncle and protector of author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Another early bearer of the relatively common British name was Jeffrey Manning, one of the earliest settlers in Piscataway township, Middlesex Co., NJ. His great-grandson James Manning (1738–91) was a founder and the first president of Rhode Island College (Brown University).
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Latin form of Greek Rhodē, RHODA means "rose." In the bible, this is the name of a servant in the house of Mary.
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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English : habitational name from places called Aldborough (in Norfolk and North Yorkshire) or Aldbrough (in East and North Yorkshire), or possibly a variant of Albury. All of these places were named with Old English eald ‘old’ + burh ‘stronghold’.A John Albro came to New England from England in 1634 and settled in Rhode Island in 1638.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : unexplained.German : variant of Roden.
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English
English : variant spelling of Rhode.
Biblical
same as Rhoda
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various minor places in northern England so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + rod ‘clearing’ (see Rhodes).
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Blind (from the Roman clan name Caecilius). Famous bearers: the African state of Rhodesia is...
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Catalan and Southern French (Rodés)
Catalan and Southern French (Rodés) : habitational name from any of several places named Rodés, mainly those in El Pallars and El Conflent districts, in northern Catalonia. This has the same origin as Occitan Rodés (Rodez in French), in Avairon department (southern France), which is first recorded in the 6th century in the Latin form Rutensis, apparently from the name of the Gaulish tribal name Ruteni.Catalan : variant of Roda, from Catalan rodes, the plural of roda ‘wheel’.English : variant of Rhodes.
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English
English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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English : variant spelling of Rhodes.
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Greek
(Ῥόδη) Greek name RHODĒ means "rose." In the bible, this is the name of a servant in the house of Mary.
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German
German : from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with the first element hrÅd ‘renown’. Compare Robert, Rudiger.North German, Danish, and English : topographic name for someone who lived on land cleared for cultivation or in a clearing in woodland, from Middle Low German rode, Danish rothe, Old English rod. Compare English Rhodes.English : habitational name from any of the many places named with this word, as for example Rode in Cheshire.Slovenian : topographic name from the adjective rod ‘barren’, denoting someone who lived on a barren land.Slovenian : nickname from the Slovenian dialect word rode ‘person with disheveled hair’, a derivative of rod ‘curly’ or ‘hairy’.
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English
English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant of Rode 1.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in woodland (see Rode 3). This, the most common form of the name, has been influenced in spelling by the English name of the Greek island of Rhodes (Greek Rhodos), with which there is no connection. There is no connection, either, with modern English road (Old English rÄd ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century.
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English : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from Old English grēne ‘green’ + rod ‘clearing’ (see Rhodes).This name is first recorded in Rochdale in 1541 in the spelling Greneroade.
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A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
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See Rodomontador.
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A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
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A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
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See Rodomontade.
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A rose encrinite.
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The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
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Any seaweed with red spores.
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Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.
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Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.
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A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.
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Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.
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Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
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Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.
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The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.
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A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
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Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.
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Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
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The visual purple. See under Visual.