Antelope
['æntɪləʊp] or ['æntɪlop]
Definition
(noun.) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks.
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Definition
(n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
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Definition
n. a quadruped belonging to the hollow-horned section of the order of Ruminants differing from the goat in its beardless chin—a gregarious peaceable animal remarkable for grace agility and swiftness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high, but may be realized by putting forth great energy. For a young woman to see an antelope miss its footing and fall from a height, denotes the love she aspires to will prove her undoing.
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Examples
- Roaring and shrieking the apes dashed toward Kulonga, but that wary savage was fleeing down the trail like a frightened antelope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abundance of wild turkeys along the streams and where there were nut-bearing woods. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The country at that time was rather new; game was in great abundance, and could be seen all day long from the car window, especially antelope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have not seen animals that moved faster, unless I might say it of the antelopes of our own great plains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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