Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Australia and New Zealand. Usually used informally.
- A group of rocky islands of the southern Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand, to which they belong. They were discovered by British seamen in 1800 and are so named because they are almost diametrically opposite Greenwich, England.
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- proper noun The southern hemisphere
- proper noun Used in
UK to refer toAustralia andNew Zealand - (once common, now less so)
Etymologies
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Examples
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(I’ve just checked my dictionary, and the Antipodes is a rather UK-centric term for Australia and New Zealand)
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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets on us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, there is no reason for believing it.
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What struck me from down in the Antipodes is the oddity of a person who, having spent a lifetime extolling the virtues of handing difficult social-policy line-drawing powers to the unelected judges, now laments the decisions they happen to be making.
'The Supreme Court Phalanx': An Exchange Allan, James 2007
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To cut the matter short, Sir, for these lawyers even at the Antipodes are a long-winded race —
Between the Acts 2004
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Such as live diame - trically oppofite to each other are called Antipodes, as they arc 180 diftant from each other.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ... 1781
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So it's no surprise that his metal and stone creations often include written words, albeit encrypted -- as in the encoded text that perforates the graceful copper panels of "Antipodes," outside the Hirshhorn Museum, as well as "Kryptos," at the CIA headquarters in Langley.
Sculptor Jim Sanborn gets wealth of ideas from the likes of 'Wealth of Nations' 2010
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In Broom's "Antipodes," which was performed at the Salisbury Court
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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Theatre, and saw the "Antipodes," wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Lady at the Wardrobe and thence to the Theatre, and saw the "Antipodes," wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Theatre, and saw the "Antipodes," wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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