rhodes scholar

1. 1.

   a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University

   Broaderscholar

Questions about rhodes scholar

What does rhodes scholar mean?

rhodes scholar means "a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University".

Is rhodes scholar a common word?

rhodes scholar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.