Antelope Definition

ăntl-ōp
antelopes
noun
Any of various swift-running ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, native to Africa and Eurasia and having unbranched horns.
American Heritage
Any of a group of swift, bovid ruminants usually living in wild herds on the plains of Africa and Asia, including the gnu, impala, and kudu.
Webster's New World
A pronghorn.
American Heritage

Pronghorn.

Webster's New World
Leather made from antelope hide.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Antelope

Noun

Singular:
antelope
Plural:
antelopes

Origin of Antelope

  • Middle English heraldic beast probably from Old French antelop savage beast with sawlike horns from Medieval Latin anthalopus from Late Greek antholops

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).

    From Wiktionary

Antelope Sentence Examples

  • The royal antelope is the smallest of the Bovidae.

  • The goat antelope is found, and several varieties of deer.

  • This antelope, widely distributed in India, with the exception of Ceylon and the region east of the Bay of Bengal, stands about 32 in.

  • To nomads, Astarte may well have been a sheep-goddess, but this, if her earliest, was not her only type, as is clear from the sacred fish of Atargatis, the doves of Ascalon (and of the Phoenician sanctuary of Eryx), and the gazelle or antelope of the goddess of love (associated also with the Arabian Athtar).

  • In the extreme south, in the Sahara desert, the addax antelope is still found.

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