Rhodes scholarship

noun

: one of numerous scholarships founded under the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that are tenable at Oxford University for a term of two or three years and are distributed among candidates from the British Commonwealth, the U.S., and Germany

Word History

Etymology

after Cecil J. Rhodes †1902 English statesman and financier in South Africa

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