A place or person on the opposite side of the Earth, or something that is completely opposite or contrary to something else.
From Greek 'anti-' (opposite) and 'pous' (foot), literally meaning 'opposite-footed.' The term originally referred to people living on the opposite side of the globe, then expanded to mean any direct opposite or contrary thing.
Medieval Europeans were fascinated and sometimes horrified by the concept of antipodes—they imagined people standing upside-down on the other side of the world, which helped them grapple with the idea of a spherical Earth long before circumnavigation proved it!
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