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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
antipope is a noun meaning "someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected". It carries one recorded sense.
someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected
“the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism”
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 antipope come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.