ANTIPODES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antipodes mean? 

• ANTIPODES (noun)
  The noun ANTIPODES has 1 sense:

1. any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth

  Familiarity information: ANTIPODES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIPODES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes

Hypernyms ("antipodes" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Derivation:

antipodal (relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth)

 Context examples 

I longed only for what suited me—for the antipodes of the Creole: and I longed vainly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)