| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·tip·o·des |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-t p  -d z |
| PLURAL NOUN: | 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | 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 Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | an·tipo·dean —ADJECTIVE
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