ANTONY

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

1. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)

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

• ANTONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anthony; Antonius; Antony; Marcus Antonius; Mark Anthony; Mark Antony

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

 Context examples 

He told me, he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy’s great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony’s flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)