Rhode Island
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- proper noun
- /roʊd ˈaɪlənd/
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Rhode Island
- The capital of Rhode Island is Providence.
- Providence, Rhode Island
- state of Rhode Island
- Newport, Rhode Island
And I kind of grew up in Rhode Island because explain.
- And I kind of grew up in Rhode Island because explain.
- Margie was a sculpture major at the Rhode Island School of Design.
- It says we're going to, you know, Rhode Island and Cameo and the merch store.
- Jim, Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the University of Rhode Island has a microphone.
- Pharma, Big Pharma, some real estate people from in Rhode Island.
- And then the reason I chose, it's a long story, but I wanted to go to Rhode Island or New York.
- Think about, say, Rhode Island, instead of like the state of New York, which is pretty vast.
- All right, there were testimonials from a lot of Republicans like Mike from Rhode Island.
- Two of them were in Massachusetts, two of them were in Maryland, one was in Rhode Island.
- Nico P Robert B Jason W Sophie M Raj C Sophie, I just saw you in Rhode Island.
Examples
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Growing up as a Christian Scientist in Barrington, Rhode Island, was lonely.
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I teach oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
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So my story, eight years ago, I moved from Rhode Island to Spain.
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Think about, say, Rhode Island, instead of like the state of New York, which is pretty vast.
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I'm going to visit my mother in Rhode Island.
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Home is Newport, Rhode Island.
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All lived in the Northeast, with the vast majority in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Academic text (1992) -
OK, first of all, it is so awesome that Rhode Island has a state appetizer.
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She moved to our little Rhode Island town from Minnesota two years earlier.
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To date, the Rhode Island Hazardous Waste Reduction Project has provided audits to 32 companies.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
A US state in New England that is the smallest of the original 13 colonies
A common nickname for the small U.S. state Rhode Island
A nickname for Rhode Island, the smallest US state in New England
Surface Forms
Morphology
Rhode + island
The element 'island' clearly signals a geographic place, so a learner who knows that word will infer this is a place name; however 'Rhode' is a proper name (not a compositional English word) and the specific meaning — that it is a US state in New England (and not simply any island) — cannot be derived from the constituents. Place names are partially transparent (the generic noun gives a clue) but the full lexicalized referent must be learned.
Etymology
Rhode Island may come from early Dutch sailors who called the land Roodt Eylandt, which means 'red island', because they saw red soil or red plants along the shore. That's why the words Rhode, which comes from the word 'red', and Island stayed in the name, even though today Rhode Island is a small US state rather than a single island.