antipodes
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- plural noun Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
- 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
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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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- 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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/ (ăn-tĭpˈə-dēzˌ)/
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