Meanings
- not comparableOf, or aboriginal to, the Rhône valley.
Some fishers opposed Brégnier-Cordon because it would destroy several lônes, a specifically Rhodanian term for the small, temporary islands created by the river’s meanders that created especially rich fish habitat.
Ibidem, “A New Modern”, page 2241 more example
As an article in Paris match put it, Donzère-Mondragon [Dam] enabled the "return to old sources [of energy] in order to forge the future," and other journalists emphasized that the CNR's [Compagnie Nationale du Rhône's] "development plan" would "safeguard Rhodanian partimony" for "future generations" and continue to allow traditional activities such as fishing.
2011, Sara B. Pritchard, “Imagining the Nation’s River”, in Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 66
plural Rhodanians
- An inhabitant of the Rhône valley.
[Léon Perrier's] regional statism crystallized […] the decades-old conflicts among constituencies in the Rhône valley, and between Parisians and Rhodanians.
2011, Sara B. Pritchard, “Envisioning a New Rhône”, in Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 661 more example
[S]ome communities along the lower Rhône complained that the BRL’s project allowed inland residents to receive “their” water, a grievance that echoed Rhodanians’ objections in the late nineteenth century, when Parisians and northern industrialists had sought access to Rhône-produced electricity.
Ibidem, “Rethinking the Nation”, page 179
Origin
Translations
French rhodanien, Rhodanien
- rhodanienof or aboriginal to the Rhône valley
- Rhodanieninhabitant of the Rhône valley
Latin Rhodanicus, Rhodanītis
- Rhodanicusof or aboriginal to the Rhône valley
- Rhodanītisof or aboriginal to the Rhône valley
- Rhodanī pōtorinhabitant of the Rhône valley
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Cite this entry
Rhodanian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rhodanian
“Rhodanian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rhodanian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Rhodanian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rhodanian.
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