antipodes |
American Heritage Dictionary (2 definitions)
- Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
- Something that is the exact opposite or contrary of another; an antipode.
–plural noun
Century Dictionary (3 definitions)
- Figuratively, things opposed to each other: as a singular, anything diametrically adverse or opposed to another thing belonging to the same general order; a contrary. In the latter sense sometimes used in the singular form antipode (which see).
- Two places on the surface of the globe diametrically opposite to each other; the country or region on the opposite side of the globe.
- Persons living at diametrically opposite points of the globe, so that their feet are directed toward each other; persons who live on the side of the globe opposite to others.
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New Zealand's rarest penguin, the endangered yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptus antipodes) is also found on the Peninsula and south along the coast.
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.
If ever a man in public life in these United States was removed the distance of the antipodes from the coldness and bleakness of agnosticism, that man was Abraham
He stands at the very antipodes from the older dream-world of frontier adventure, and of course from the jangling world of the American fifties between the Fugitive Slave Law and the guns of Sumter.
'Zenith to us,' &c., i. e., apparently, 'height so infinite that for Him the difference between us and our antipodes is nonexistent.
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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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