antipode Meaning, Definition & Usage

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.
In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.
✍ The singular, antipode, is exceptional in formation, but has been used by good writers. Its regular English plural would be &acr;n"t&icr;*p&omac;des, the last syllable rhyming with abodes, and this pronunciation is sometimes heard. The plural form (originally a Latin word without a singular) is in common use, and is pronounced, after the English method of Latin, &acr;n*t&icr;p"&osl;*dez.