Antony
pronunciation
How to pronounce Antony in British English:
UK ['æntəni]
How to pronounce Antony in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
Word Origin
- Antony
- masc. proper name, from Latin Antonius, name of a Roman gens (see Anthony).
Example
- 1. Antony accuses pakistan of becoming an " epicenter of international terrorism . "
- 2. Louise m. antony teaches philosophy at the university of massachusetts amherst .
- 3. The authors are both based at st antony 's college , oxford .
- 4. Research in soviet archives led antony beevor to call andre malraux a " mythomaniac " .
- 5. Yet most britons would have no trouble identifying the native languages of a mark antony or marcus brutus with that of ancient rome .