HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Rhode Island
/ˌɹoʊd ˈaɪ.lənd/
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What does Rhode Island mean?
proper noun
- The smallest state of the United States. Official name: State of Rhode Island.
- The official name of Aquidneck Island.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɹoʊd ˈaɪ.lənd/
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He owns almost a Rhode Island county, with thousands of acres and hundreds of black laborers.
But we probed deeper, and discovered that the purely American communities, such as Rhode Island, were the most corrupt of all.
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The sloop putting in at Newport, Rhode Island, I visited my brother John, who had been married and settled there some years.
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm.
"Would you believe that we actually raise more corn on one farm in Illinois than the total corn crop of Rhode Island?"