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antipodes

[ US /ˌæntɪˌpoʊdiz/ ]
[ UK /ˌæntɪpˈə‍ʊdz/ ]
NOUN
  1. any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth
    the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes

How To Use antipodes In A Sentence

  • Proud Ilkley ex-pats living in the Antipodes could drive off with a unique personalised car registration plate.
  • The former Lakes School pupil, who trained as a landscape gardener, decided on his return from the Antipodes that it was time for a career change.
  • Such a shame, too, that her triumphs were being closely monitored by sceptical officials from the Antipodes who know where a Sheila should be sporting curves and why.
  • -- Colonel Mundy, in _Our Antipodes_, says that the word _nugget_ was, before the days of gold digging, used by the farmers of Australia to express a small thick bullock, such as our English farmers would call a lumpy one, or a little great one. Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Sometimes, at night I think of the whole world below me; I travel in my mind through the bed and the floor and our sitting room, under the house through the Earth until I emerge in the ocean at the Antipodes.
  • His family, the Barwoods, had been from the earliest times a race of shrewd and driving New England storekeepers, the very antipodes of sentiment and dilettanteism. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1
  • Some of the best directors in the world come from the Antipodes, with New Zealand making a huge parallel contribution with artists like Jane Campion and Peter Jackson.
  • There was, however, considerable tension over any idea that the lands on the opposite ends of the earth otherwise known as antipodes could be inhabited by people. Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds
  • Jewish endorsements have flooded in from Iceland to India, from the Arctic to the Antipodes.
  • Mr. Newton took me everywhere, even to the little seventeenth-century Swedish church, which architecturally may be described as the antipodes of Philadelphia's newer glory, the Curtis Roving East and Roving West
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