Associations to the word «Antipodes»
Noun
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Wiktionary
ANTIPODES, noun. The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
ANTIPODES, noun. The Southern Hemisphere.
ANTIPODES, noun. (UK) (now) (rare) Australia and New Zealand.
ANTIPODES, noun. (figuratively) (by extension) The opposite of something.
ANTIPODES, noun. Plural of antipode
ANTIPODES, proper noun. The southern hemisphere
ANTIPODES, proper noun. Used in UK to refer to Australia and New Zealand - (once common, now less so)
Dictionary definition
ANTIPODES, noun. Any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes".
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