antipodes en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ænˈtɪp.əˌdiz/
Etymology
From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + πόδες (pódes), plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
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(uncountable) The Southern Hemisphere.
[…]a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- (UK, archaic, uncountable) Australia and New Zealand.
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(broadly, figuratively, uncountable) The opposite of something.
The loud, rapid, eager tones, the incessant motion, the intense vital activity manifested in speech and action, are the very antipodes of the quiet, unimpulsive, unanimated Malay.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 176:The sleepy yet shrewd judge was the antipodes to confidence, but to Don Manuel he felt no hesitation in frankly stating his actions and their motives, from his first arrival in Spain to the present time.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 295:
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(form-of, plural, uncountable) plural of antipode
form of antipode
Deriveds
Translations (3)
pl antypody (Australia and New Zealand) · pl antypody (opposite points on a globe) · pl antypody (opposite of something)