antipodes /ænˈtɪp.əˌdiz/ noun4 •The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun. — 1596 •The Southern Hemisphere. •(UK) Australia and New Zealand. •(figurative) The opposite of something.The loud, rapid, eager tones, the incessant motion, the intense vital activity manifested in speech and action, are the very antipodes of the quiet, unimpulsive, unanimated Malay. — 1869 formsantipous