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Rand

noun

The basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents.

United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982). Synonym: Ayn Rand.

A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese. Synonyms: Reef, Witwatersrand.

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"Rand" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Transvaal were not so near its borders, and gave rise to more prolonged dissensions. Crowds of cosmopolitan adventurers, as lawless as those who disturbed the peace in Victoria or California, flocked to the Rand. They were not of the stuff of which Dutch burghers were made, and the franchise was denied them by a government which did not hesitate to profit from their labours. The Jameson Raid, a hasty attempt to use their wrongs to overthrow President Kruger's government in 1895, "upset the apple-cart" ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

... company-promoting character. It ran like a prospectus. 'We have inherited the gold of Australia and the diamonds of the Cape,' he said, growing didactic, and lifting one fat forefinger; 'we are now inheriting Klondike and the Rand, for it is morally certain that we shall annex the Transvaal. Again, "the chief things of the ancient mountains, and the precious things of the everlasting hills." What does that mean? The ancient mountains are clearly the Rockies; can the everlasting hills be anything but the Himalayas? "For ...

— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

Words linked to "Rand" : author, writer, region, cent, Witwatersrand, Transvaal, part, South African monetary unit, reef, Ayn Rand