Definition of antipodes Antipodes

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We found 11 definitions of antipodes from 6 different sources.

What does antipodes mean?

WordNet

Noun

Singular: antipode

antipodes - any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

region a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"

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Wiktionary

antipodes (Noun)
Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
antipodes (Noun)
The southern hemisphere.
antipodes (Noun)
Used in UK to refer to Australia and New Zealand - once common, now less so.
antipodes (Noun)
The opposite of something.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

antipodes (n.)
Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.
antipodes (n.)
The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe.
antipodes (n.)
Anything exactly opposite or contrary.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

antipodes
an-tip′od-ēz, n.pl. those living on the other side of the globe, and whose feet are thus opposite to ours: the inhabitants of any two opposite points of the globe: places on the earth's surface exactly opposite each other, the region opposite one's own: the exact opposite of a person or thing:—sing. An′tipode.—adjs. Antip′odal, Antipodē′an.—At antipodes, in direct opposition. [Gr. anti, opposite to, pous, podos, a foot.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

antipodes
Such inhabitants of the earth as are diametrically opposite to each other. From the people, the term has passed to the places themselves, which are situated at the two extremities of any diameter of the earth.