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antichthons

antichthons is the plural of antichthon.

Meaning of antichthon

Noun

antichthon (plural antichthons)

  1. (obsolete) A hypothetical Earth on the opposite side of the Sun.
    • It is curious at least, that his Philosophy obliged Pythagoras, to make the Solar System #61;10, tho' his imperfect Astrognosy reduced him to the shift of including the moon, and imagining an Antiχθων ["anti-earth, anti-world"] and taking the whole as a completory Unit—Sun, Mer[cury,] Ven[us,]...c. 1818 (date written), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by George Whalley, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia II: Camden to Hutton (Bollingen Series; LXXV), London: Routledge...
    Synonyms:
    counter-earth

Questions about antichthons

What is antichthons the plural of?
Antichthons is the plural of antichthon.

Words near antichthons in the dictionary

  1. antichronisms
  2. antichronological
  3. antichthon
  4. Antichthones
  5. antichthonic
  6. antichthons
  7. antichurch
  8. antichurning
  9. antichymotrypsin
  10. antichymotrypsins
  11. anticide

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