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Definition of antipodes in English: antipodesplural nounanˈtɪpədiːzænˈtɪpədiz 1Australia and New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere) there were plants from the Antipodes, including eucalyptuses and acacias Example sentencesExamples - Well as a final question: the two games this weekend that are of particular interest to us down here in the Antipodes, England and Australia, and Ireland and New Zealand.
- I have to say that I agree with him and don't think this is just the bias of a Brit in the Antipodes.
- This naturally entails a missionary element, bringing new revelations to the benighted souls in the art-complacent Antipodes.
- Some of the best directors in the world come from the Antipodes, with New Zealand making a huge parallel contribution with artists like Jane Campion and Peter Jackson.
- One final thing that took the gloss off the evening was the fact that we were charged $10 per bottle of 1 litre Antipodes mineral water - an outrageous cost that was not brought to the attention of the table when we asked for water.
- Geographically the very notion of the Antipodes has long been obsolete, since of course the continents above the equator don't need a counter-weight below to keep the globe from toppling sideways into deep space.
- Sometimes, at night I think of the whole world below me; I travel in my mind through the bed and the floor and our sitting room, under the house through the Earth until I emerge in the ocean at the Antipodes.
- Perhaps the achievement for which Captain Cook, the eighteenth century British seafarer, is best remembered is his role as an explorer, ranging from the far north Canadian coast to the distant reaches of the Antipodes.
- The Birds of Australia, which is in the stately home's library together with Gould's The Birds of Europe and The Birds of the Himalayas, is one of the earliest attempts to describe the flora and fauna of the Antipodes.
- Laney arrived from the Antipodes with the reputation of a player who, when he was good, was very, very good; but when he was bad, he was awful.
- Proud Ilkley ex-pats living in the Antipodes could drive off with a unique personalised car registration plate.
- Anyway, he adds, he has a New Zealand passport as well as a British one, and two of his children live in the Antipodes, so I mustn't make assumptions about patriotism.
- I thought they were from the, then undiscovered, Antipodes.
- Such a shame, too, that her triumphs were being closely monitored by sceptical officials from the Antipodes who know where a Sheila should be sporting curves and why.
- When my wife was organising a reunion for her Barts nursing trainees of 20 years ago, she found a quarter of them were living abroad, nearly all in the Antipodes or North America.
- The former Lakes School pupil, who trained as a landscape gardener, decided on his return from the Antipodes that it was time for a career change.
- The alternative, in the early months of next season, was the European Tour's tiring hike through Africa, Asia and the Antipodes.
- The author traces in a wealth of detail two centuries of English immigration into Australia: the geographic origins of the main immigration streams, their reasons for leaving England and how it all played out in the Antipodes.
- Jewish endorsements have flooded in from Iceland to India, from the Arctic to the Antipodes.
- Andy and Kevin set off for a two-month trip to the Antipodes on Thursday, and the first of Andy's characteristically opaque text messages arrived soon afterwards.
2The direct opposite of something. voting and violence are antipodes Example sentencesExamples - Strictly speaking, the words ‘choice’, ‘chance’ and ‘destiny’ are antipodes of each other.
- Just before I went to sleep the other night, I became aware of everything directly beneath me and this led me to wondering what the exact antipodes of my location looked like.
- Crisis and redemption, the two (inextricably linked) antipodes of Martin's heroic rhetoric, constitute the classic parameters of salvational ideology and charismatic power.
- ‘Some apparently interesting places in Sumner, such as Shag Rock, have their antipodes just offshore in Spain while a nice little plaza in Foz is situated opposite a private home in your place,’ he said.
- They use the antagonism between the antipodes; the contrast of white and brown; and the polarity of night and day as a means of exploring issues of cultural imperialism and its legacy.
Synonyms reverse, converse, antithesis, contrary, inverse, obverse, contradiction
Origin Late Middle English: via French or late Latin from Greek antipodes 'having the feet opposite', from anti 'against, opposite' + pous, pod- 'foot'. The term originally denoted the inhabitants of opposite sides of the earth. Think of a person standing on the other side of the world, exactly opposite the point on the Earth's surface where you are standing. The soles of their feet are facing the soles of your feet. This is the idea behind the word Antipodes, which came via French or Latin from the Greek word antipous, meaning ‘having the feet opposite’. Writing in 1398, John de Trevisa described the Antipodes who lived in Ethiopia as ‘men that have their feet against our feet’.
Definition of antipodes in US English: antipodesplural nounænˈtɪpədizanˈtipədēz 1the AntipodesAustralia and New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere) there were plants from the Antipodes, including eucalyptuses and acacias Example sentencesExamples - Well as a final question: the two games this weekend that are of particular interest to us down here in the Antipodes, England and Australia, and Ireland and New Zealand.
- Laney arrived from the Antipodes with the reputation of a player who, when he was good, was very, very good; but when he was bad, he was awful.
- This naturally entails a missionary element, bringing new revelations to the benighted souls in the art-complacent Antipodes.
- The former Lakes School pupil, who trained as a landscape gardener, decided on his return from the Antipodes that it was time for a career change.
- The alternative, in the early months of next season, was the European Tour's tiring hike through Africa, Asia and the Antipodes.
- Sometimes, at night I think of the whole world below me; I travel in my mind through the bed and the floor and our sitting room, under the house through the Earth until I emerge in the ocean at the Antipodes.
- Perhaps the achievement for which Captain Cook, the eighteenth century British seafarer, is best remembered is his role as an explorer, ranging from the far north Canadian coast to the distant reaches of the Antipodes.
- When my wife was organising a reunion for her Barts nursing trainees of 20 years ago, she found a quarter of them were living abroad, nearly all in the Antipodes or North America.
- I have to say that I agree with him and don't think this is just the bias of a Brit in the Antipodes.
- The author traces in a wealth of detail two centuries of English immigration into Australia: the geographic origins of the main immigration streams, their reasons for leaving England and how it all played out in the Antipodes.
- Geographically the very notion of the Antipodes has long been obsolete, since of course the continents above the equator don't need a counter-weight below to keep the globe from toppling sideways into deep space.
- Proud Ilkley ex-pats living in the Antipodes could drive off with a unique personalised car registration plate.
- Andy and Kevin set off for a two-month trip to the Antipodes on Thursday, and the first of Andy's characteristically opaque text messages arrived soon afterwards.
- One final thing that took the gloss off the evening was the fact that we were charged $10 per bottle of 1 litre Antipodes mineral water - an outrageous cost that was not brought to the attention of the table when we asked for water.
- Some of the best directors in the world come from the Antipodes, with New Zealand making a huge parallel contribution with artists like Jane Campion and Peter Jackson.
- Such a shame, too, that her triumphs were being closely monitored by sceptical officials from the Antipodes who know where a Sheila should be sporting curves and why.
- The Birds of Australia, which is in the stately home's library together with Gould's The Birds of Europe and The Birds of the Himalayas, is one of the earliest attempts to describe the flora and fauna of the Antipodes.
- I thought they were from the, then undiscovered, Antipodes.
- Jewish endorsements have flooded in from Iceland to India, from the Arctic to the Antipodes.
- Anyway, he adds, he has a New Zealand passport as well as a British one, and two of his children live in the Antipodes, so I mustn't make assumptions about patriotism.
2The direct opposite of something. voting and violence are antipodes Example sentencesExamples - Crisis and redemption, the two (inextricably linked) antipodes of Martin's heroic rhetoric, constitute the classic parameters of salvational ideology and charismatic power.
- Just before I went to sleep the other night, I became aware of everything directly beneath me and this led me to wondering what the exact antipodes of my location looked like.
- They use the antagonism between the antipodes; the contrast of white and brown; and the polarity of night and day as a means of exploring issues of cultural imperialism and its legacy.
- ‘Some apparently interesting places in Sumner, such as Shag Rock, have their antipodes just offshore in Spain while a nice little plaza in Foz is situated opposite a private home in your place,’ he said.
- Strictly speaking, the words ‘choice’, ‘chance’ and ‘destiny’ are antipodes of each other.
Synonyms reverse, converse, antithesis, contrary, inverse, obverse, contradiction
Origin Late Middle English: via French or late Latin from Greek antipodes ‘having the feet opposite’, from anti ‘against, opposite’ + pous, pod- ‘foot’. The term originally denoted the inhabitants of opposite sides of the earth. |