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  1. plural noun Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
  2. plural noun Something that is the exact opposite or contrary of another; an antipode.

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  • Christmas at the antipodes is of course midsummer, and I was not loth to describe the troubles to which my own son had been subjected, by the mingled accidents of heat and bad neighbours, on his station in the bush. —  Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
  • You will dispatch whatever luggage you intend to take by a trusty messenger unaddressed to Victoria to-night. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • It was useless for me to explain to him that his presence was an intrusion, for my Italian was even more limited than his English, so I shrugged my shoulders resignedly, and continued to look out anxiously for my friend. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • How at the antipodes was the picture he was seeing! —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • There was no sign of him. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 

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  1. Middle English, people with feet opposite ours, from Latin, from Greek, from pl. of antipous, with the feet opposite : anti-, anti- + pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. L. (in Middle English as L.), from Greek ἀντίποδες, plural of ἀντίους, with feet opposite, from ἀντί, opposite, + πούς, plural πόδες, = English foot.
 

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