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発音

• IPA: /ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/
• 韻: -əʊd

名詞

antipode (plural antipodes)

1. Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.

   Synonym: antipous (rare)

   Hyponym: antithesis (opposite idea)

   • 1704, David Crawford, Love at First Sight: A Comedy‎, London: R. Basset, page 58:

     The very Reverse of a Wit. The Antipode of Sense.

   • 1847, editorial staff, “A Mexican Diligence”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 74:

     A Mexican diligence is fmilar(sic) to an American post coach or mail stage, and a stranger from the United States, taking his seat in one of them, while all else around him is nearly the antipodes of what he has been accustomed to, feels old sensations revive, as he once more finds something that looks like home.

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 167:

     In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.

2. The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.

派生語

参考

• antimeridian

Further reading

• antipode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• “antipode”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• adeption, antidope