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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Macedonian general and regent (334–323) who governed the empire during Alexander the Great's military campaigns. He served again as regent in 321 to 319.

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Examples

  • The King slid back from the peak, calling Antipater to him.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • The King slid back from the peak, calling Antipater to him.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • ‘One is a common soldier named Theoparlis, another is the King’s lover, Nicanor; the third is a soldier called Antipater - he it was who led the charge against the Paiones.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • 'One is a common soldier named Theoparlis, another is the King's lover, Nicanor; the third is a soldier called Antipater - he it was who led the charge against the Paiones.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • And when Herod had been poisoned with calumnies against them, he recalled Antipater, his son by Doris, from exile as a defence against his other sons, and began to treat him in every way with more distinction than them.

    The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Charles Foster Kent 1896

  • In the Palatine Anthology there are one hundred and seventy-eight epigrams, of which forty-six are ascribed to Antipater of Sidon and thirty-six to Antipater of Thessalonica, the remaining ninety-six being headed "Antipater" merely.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • a number of miscellaneous epigrams, chiefly imitated from older writers such as Antipater and Leonidas.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Neither Craterus, Antipater whom Alexander, ominously, had ordered replaced by Craterus, nor several other key figures were present at this meeting.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • Roxane's child, if a boy, would be king, with four regents: Perdiccas and Leonnatus (a member of Alexander's inner circle, who had once saved his life) in Asia; the veteran (and well-loved) general Craterus, then en route home with his troops; and old Antipater, viceroy in Macedonia throughout Alexander's campaign, in Europe.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • Stories grew that Antipater had ordered the poisoning through the agency of his son Cassander, who was still in Babylon recovering from the beating he had received from Alexander.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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