Proper noun

1. A servant girl (Acts 12:13-15).
2. .

Quotations

• And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

• 1970 Patrick White, The Vivisector, Viking Press, page 13:

  'One little girl. Her name is Rhoda.'

  'What? Roader?' The others all looked suspicious of a name nobody had ever heard.

  'It's in the Bible,' he said.