Antiscian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the inhabitants of the Earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

Word forms

Antiscian Antiscians

Etymology

Greek, from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + σκιά (shadow)

Synonyms

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