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rhos

rhos is the plural of rho.

Meaning of rho

Noun

rho (plural rhos)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
    • Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25
  2. The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

See all 4 meanings of rho

Noun capitalized: Rhos

Rhos

  1. (plural) plural of Rho

Proper noun capitalized: Rhos

Rhos

  1. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of Rhosllanerchrugog: a large village and community in Wrexham borough, Wales.
  2. A village in Cilybebyll community, Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7303).

Origin of rhos

From Welsh rhos (“moor”).

Words formed from rhos

Phrases with rhos

Questions about rhos

What does rhos mean?
Rhos means a village in Cilybebyll community, Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7303).
What is rhos the plural of?
Rhos is the plural of rho.
What part of speech is rhos?
Rhos can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near rhos in the dictionary

  1. rhophilins
  2. rhopographic
  3. rhopography
  4. rhoptries
  5. rhoptry
  6. rhos
  7. Rhos-on-Sea
  8. Rhosddu
  9. Rhosgoch
  10. Rhosllanerchrugog
  11. Rhosneigr

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhos (page history and authors); Rhos (page history and authors); rho (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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