Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various swift-running ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, native to Africa and Asia and having long horns and a slender build.
- n. An animal, such as the pronghorn, that resembles a true antelope.
- n. Leather made from the hide of the African and Asian ruminant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An animal of the genus Antilope or subfamily Antilopinæ; especially, the sasin or common Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra. See Antilope, Antilopinæ, and cut under sasin.
- n. A name sometimes given to the saiga, and to the cabrit or pronghorn. See these words; also Antilocapra and Antilocapridæ.
- n. [capitalized] (Pron. an-tel′ ō˙-pē.) Sometimes incorrectly used for Antilope.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
- n. US The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Etymologies
- From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus, from Byzantine Greek anthólops. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, heraldic beast, probably from Old French antelop, savage beast with sawlike horns, from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholops. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And that which we called antelope will become some form of canid instead.”
“With my 90 grain antelope loads, I get at least 500 fps extra speed over a 150g 30-06 bullet and that is noticable in lead.”
Whats the best rifle for antelope hunting? Also whats the best for mountain goat hunting?
“That antelope is probably still running as a testiment to human addreneline.”
Worse shot that you've ever witnessed (On any game animal or target)??
“Yes, it's a Takin Budorcas taxicolor, a bizarre goat-antelope from the bamboo forests of the Himalayas.”
“Yes | No | Report from Visitor wrote 3 years 23 weeks ago now, now Dave ... the sable antelope is a magnificent animal, and is one of the few who would 'spear' a lion rather than flee.”
Much Ado about Nothing (With apologies to the worshipful Wm.
“This bovine antelope is again termed Bakar al-Wahsh (wild cattle) or Bos”
“The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!”
“Krikey!" said Dick, "come on, Oswald!" and he bounded like an antelope from the room.”
“Before the words were out of his brave yet trembling lips our own tramp leapt like an antelope from the ditch and said:”
“Naturally, in the fall, at the time Lewis and Clark got their 'goat,' as they called the antelope, the horns were on tight, so they supposed they didn't shed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antelope’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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tHe Best Animals Ever
giraffe, elepant, cattle, water buffalo, langur monkey, baboon, lion, antelope, cheetah, tapeworm, kangaroo, bullfrog and 102 more...
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strange plurals
words with unusual plurals - singular form being the plural form, obsolete formations without 's', etc.
shoon, crocket, crotchet, quare, aëtheogamous, binoculars, antelope, luggage, police, furniture, aircraft, macaroni and 32 more...
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Meats: For All the Carnivores out There
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Just kidding. Kind of.yak, wood pigeon, wild turkey, wild boar, venison, veal, turtle, turkey, squirrel, squab, snail, rattlesnake and 51 more...
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effleurer's Words
languor, nincompoop, masquerade, envelop, deceit, guttersnipe, undulating, ululation, ridiculous, insufferable, loverly, eternity and 89 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Words of weirdness
Weird words that are weird
fjord, rape, carnage, bubbles, wizz, screamery, dominion, panophobia, poopie, gremlin, fuzz, obtain and 103 more...
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"A List of His MAJESTY's Ships and Ve...
Boston: Re-Printed and Sold at J. Draper's Printing-Office in Newbury-Street. (Price Sixteen Pence single.)
See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bok, bongo and 479 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Oregon towns that you'd find in the d...
boring, zigzag, rhododendron, halfway, bend, drain, beaver, alfalfa, cove, warren, wagontire, needy and 25 more...
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the blood jet is poetry
A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
whiteness, zen, dryad, rook, tulip, kindness, troublous, portico, prospect, blight, havoc, millrace and 62 more...
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animalia
Creatures with interesting names/lives.
salamander, badger, varmint, wombat, skink, tortoise, pika, gnu, pangolin, porpoise, serval, walrus and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for antelope.
fbharjo plural is singular form May 29, 2011
ofravens I do not know
What fury urged him slay
Her antelope who meant him naught but good
from "The Queen's Complaint," Sylvia Plath Apr 14, 2008