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antipodean

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an⋅tip⋅o⋅des

  [an-tip-uh-deez]
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–plural noun
1. places diametrically opposite each other on the globe.
2. those who dwell there.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L < Gk (hoi) antípodes lit., (those) with the feet opposite (pl. of antípous), equiv. to anti- anti- + -podes, nom. pl. of poûs foot

Related forms:
an⋅tip⋅o⋅de⋅an  [an-tip-uh-dee-uhn] , adjective, noun
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an·tip·o·des   (ān-tĭp'ə-dēz')   
pl.n.  

  1. Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth.

  2. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Something that is the exact opposite or contrary of another; an antipode.


[Middle English, people with feet opposite ours, from Latin, from Greek, from pl. of antipous, with the feet opposite : anti-, anti- + pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]
an·tip'o·de'an adj.
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antipodes [(an-tip-uh-deez)]

Two places on the globe that are exactly opposite each other; for example, the North Pole and South Pole.

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Word Origin & History

antipodes 
1398, from L. antipodes "those who dwell on the opposite side of the earth," from Gk. antipodes, pl. of antipous "with feet opposite ours," from anti- "opposite" + pous "foot" (see foot), thus people who live on the opposite side of the world. Not to be confused with antiscii "those who live on the same meridian on opposite side of the equator," whose shadows fall at noon in the opposite direction, from Gk. anti- + skia "shadow."
"Yonde in Ethiopia ben the Antipodes, men that haue theyr fete ayenst our fete." ["De Proprietatibus Rerum Bartholomeus Anglicus," translated by John of Trevisa, 1398]
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