Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A direct or diametrical opposite.
- noun One of a pair of antipodes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the antipodes, or those who dwell on opposite sides of the globe.
- noun One who or that which is in opposition to or over against another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun something directly
opposite ordiametrically opposed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun direct opposite
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Antipov is the 'antipode' for Pasternak, he is the lost child who makes a violent myth of himself, bringing pain and destruction, ending in baffled suicide.
Pasternak in Private France, Peter 1979
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We take a bialgebra, and we add an "antipode", which behaves sort of like an inverse operation.
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Bonnier was equally well-known for his famously roving eye, which may have been alluded to here by the artist in his patron's confident, all-knowing gaze; Nattier's portrait of his wife as the chaste goddess Diana offers a witty antipode.
With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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If the Land of Israel is the epicenter of Jewishness, then what is the antipode of Jewishness?
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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But it seems the Deccan Traps probably lay at least 1,000 miles away from Chicxulub's antipode at the time, though it would take just a little error in our assumptions about the speed and direction of Mexico's and India's motion to put India over the antipode.
New Suspects in a 65 Million-Year-Old Mystery Matt Ridley 2011
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Imagine a globe that is tilted so that instead of the North and South Poles being at the top and the bottom, Jerusalem is on the "top" and its antipode on the "bottom."
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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Bonnier was equally well-known for his famously roving eye, which may have been alluded to here by the artist in his patron's confident, all-knowing gaze; Nattier's portrait of his wife as the chaste goddess Diana offers a witty antipode.
With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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Calculations show that the Chicxulub meteorite was certainly big enough to have triggered eruptions at its antipode.
New Suspects in a 65 Million-Year-Old Mystery Matt Ridley 2011
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When we turn the topic to relaxation's antipode, stress, the bravado of a few -- "I'm fine, we're all fine," claims one boy; "it was simply a natural disaster" intones another -- contends with the more complex memories of their classmates.
James S. Gordon: At School: A Place to Help Haitian Children 2010
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He had to leave the island to find himself as a black man, eventually rooting in Chicago, the antipode of remote and exotic Honolulu, deep in the fold of the mainland, and there set out on the path that led toward politics and national power.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
she commented on the word antipode
In her Adventures in Wonderland, Alice mixes what would've been a clever use of this word up with 'antipathy,' falling down the rabbit-hole:
"I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think—" (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) (...)
July 18, 2008
quotato commented on the word antipode
Is the antipode to the antipode called a "pode"?
July 23, 2009
seanahan commented on the word antipode
This is from the Greek, meaning opposite feet. On a sphere, people on the other side will be upside down, with their feet the opposite way of yours.
July 23, 2009
yarb commented on the word antipode
Yes, qroqqa. The antipode to the antipode would be you, or someone very near you. Maybe only a foot away.
July 23, 2009
sionnach commented on the word antipode
But what if you awake to find yourself standing on the surface of a Klein bottle? What then?
One sneeze and you'd probably vanish up your own butt?
Gives me an idea for the next volume in my series of children's books, "Millicent the millipede". Oh, the places she'll go!
July 24, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word antipode
I'd rather be in that situation than be an anticommode.
July 24, 2009
bilby commented on the word antipode
*guffaw*
July 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word antipode
A word that pricks the long ears of certain Wordnik marsupials. I expect bilby to pop in any second. In the meantime, the word was used in railroad telegraphs to signify "Appearances are doubtful". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 20, 2013