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say it: AN-ti-poh-deez
antipodes is a noun meaning "any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth". It is pronounced /ˌæntɪˌpoʊdiz/ — AN-ti-poh-deez. It carries one recorded sense.
any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth
“the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antipodes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.