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Antipodean

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An·tip·o·des  (n-tp-dz)
1. Australia and New Zealand. Usually used informally.
2. A group of rocky islands of the southern Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand, to which they belong. They were discovered by British seamen in 1800 and are so named because they are diametrically opposite Greenwich, England.

an·tip·o·des  (n-tp-dz)
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·tipo·dean adj.
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Adj.1.antipodean - relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth; "antipodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere"
Translations
Antipodean [æntɪpəˈdiːən] adjantípoda
Antipodean [æntɪpəˈdiːən] adjaustralien(ne) et néozélandais(e)d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande
Antipodean [æntɪpəˈdiːən] adjantipodisch
Antipodean [æntɪpəˈdiːən] adjdegli Antipodi


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Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
 
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