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Antipodes(dictionary)

Adonis (oh) and antipodes (iou)


Adonis (oh)



in Greek mythology, a beautiful boy whom Aphrodite loved, but who was killed by a boar (=a wild pig) while he was hunting
an extremely attractive young man

antipodes (iou)



antipodes noun pl. (sense 3 also treated as sing.). Also Antipodes. LME.
[French, or late Latin from Greek pl. of antipous having the feet opposite, formed as ANTI- + pous, pod- foot.]
Those who live on the opposite side of the earth to each Other or to oneself. LME-M19.
b. fig. Those in any way resembling the inhabitants of the opposite side of the earth. Only in 17.
Bacon He will neuer be one of the Antipodes, to tread opposite to the present world.
Places on the surface of the earth directly or diametrically opposite to each Other; a place diametrically opposite to another, esp. Australasia as the region on the opposite side of the earth to Europe. M16.
Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes. A. R. Wallace New Zealand, almost the antipodes of Britain.
Exact opposites. Also as sing., = ANTIPODE 2. (Foll. by of, to.) E17.
Sir T. Browne Fools..are antipodes unto the wise. O. Henry Passengers..saw them seated together, and wondered at the conflux of two such antipodes. E. B. Titchener Common sense is the very antipodes of science.
See ANTIPODE 3.
? Formerly trisyllabic 'antipodes; later pronunc. after Greek & Latin.