Rhodes scholar
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- noun
- /roʊdz ˈskɒlər/
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Becado Rhodes
- Here is former transportation secretary and Rhodes Scholar Pete Buttigieg.
- Rhodes scholar at Oxford
- former Rhodes scholar
- fellow Rhodes scholar
She didn't go to Columbia and Oxford and become a Rhodes Scholar like you, George.
- She didn't go to Columbia and Oxford and become a Rhodes Scholar like you, George.
- You meet them and they're often people who are Rhodes scholars, who've studied at Harvard or at Princeton.
- A former Rhodes Scholar with Clintonian charisma.
- Our other guest this evening is Michael Mcfaul, who I'm very proud to say was a Stanford undergraduate and a Rhodes Scholar, did his D fill at Oxford.
Examples
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You meet them and they're often people who are Rhodes scholars, who've studied at Harvard or at Princeton.
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Then you have someone like Jerome Hasenpflug, a Rhodes scholar; he got his PhD at Cambridge and a Master's from Harvard in History and Anthropology, leading us through Burgundy.
Blog text (19) -
Well, I'm a Rhodes scholar.
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Bet you don't even know what a Rhodes Scholar is.
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Hessler graduated from Princeton in 1992 and is now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he is studying English literature.
Fiction book (1993) -
After majoring at Yale, Damien Thorn came to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he captained the Oxford eight to victory and won the Westchester Cup at polo.
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Matthew was thrilled to be named a Rhodes scholar and looked forward to studying at Oxford.
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Many Rhodes scholars share their experiences at university during annual conferences.
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After being awarded a Rhodes scholarship, she prepared for her journey to Oxford to pursue her studies.
Synonyms
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3.4
A student who receives money to help pay for their studies
Surface Forms
Morphology
The word 'scholar' transparently signals someone who holds a scholarship, so learners can infer this is a scholarship-related title. However 'Rhodes' is a proper name for a specific, culturally specific scholarship (the Rhodes Scholarship) and that precise institutional meaning is not derivable from the constituents alone, making the expression only partially predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Rhodes scholar comes from the name of a rich British man, Cecil Rhodes, who left money to pay for students to study at Oxford. So, a Rhodes scholar is a student who has been given that 'scholarship' to study at Oxford.