Antipodes
[æn'tɪpədiːz] or [æn'tɪpə,diz]
Definition
(noun.) any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; 'the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes'.
Inputed by Chris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.
(n.) The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe.
(n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary.
Inputed by Elisabeth
Definition
n.pl. those living on the other side of the globe and whose feet are thus opposite to ours: the inhabitants of any two opposite points of the globe: places on the earth's surface exactly opposite each other the region opposite one's own: the exact opposite of a person or thing:—sing. An′tipode.—adjs. Antip′odal Antipodē′an.—At antipodes in direct opposition.
Edited by Gillian
Examples
- They shall behold the antipodes of what is real--for I will appear to live--while I am--dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I longed only for what suited me--for the antipodes of the Creole: and I longed vainly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The conception of mind as a purely isolated possession of the self is at the very antipodes of the truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is singular that the professor was the antipodes of Captain Swosser and that Mr. Badger is not in the least like either! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He also allowed himself to ridicule the idea of the antipodes, a topsy-turvy world of unima ginable disorder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Adrian's soul was painted in his countenance, and concealment or deceit were at the antipodes to the dreadless frankness of his nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are a sort of circumnavigator come to settle among us, and will keep up my belief in the antipodes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Annabel