antelope
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Antilope cervicapra
See also: Antelope
English
Etymology
From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)
- Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
- (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
- Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:
- "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
- (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
mammal of the family Bovidae
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pronghorn — see pronghorn
See also
See also
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).
Pronunciation
Noun
antelope (plural antelopes)
Descendants
References
- “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.