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anthony | opposite |

As a proper noun anthony

is , in regular use since the middle ages.

As an adjective opposite is

located directly across from something else, or from each other.

As a noun opposite is

something opposite or contrary to another.

As an adverb opposite is

in an opposite position.

As a preposition opposite is

facing, or across from.

anthony

English

Alternative forms

* Antony

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , in regular use since the Middle Ages.
  • * 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
    • "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
  • * 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
    • It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
  • * 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
    • She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"
  • A city in Kansas
  • A city in New Mexico
  • A town in Texas

    • Related terms

    * (pet forms) Tony, Ant * (variants) Antonio, Antoine, Anton * (feminine names) Antonia, Antoinette, Toni, Tonia, Tonya

    opposite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
    • She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  • Facing in the other direction.
    • They were moving in opposite directions.
  • Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
    • He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
  • Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
  • * Dryden
    • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
  • * John Locke
    • Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.

    Derived terms

    * opposite sex

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something opposite or contrary to another.
  • An opponent.
  • An antonym.
    • "Up" is the opposite of "down".
  • (mathematics) An additive inverse.

    • Derived terms

    * opposites attract

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an opposite position.
    • I was on my seat and she stood opposite .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Facing, or across from.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
  • In a complementary role to.
  • :

    • See also

    * apposite

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