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Definition of Antony
1. 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).
Generic synonyms: Full General, General
Definition of Antony
1. Proper noun. (given name male from=Latin), a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antony
Literary usage of Antony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1859)
"Ai Demetrius and antony both passed through a variety of fortune, ... On the
other hand, the father of antony was, indeed, a man of character, ..."
2. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"antony indulged in his earliest youth iu every kind of dissipation, and his
affairs soon became ... In 48, antony was pres- nt at the battle of Pharsalia, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"Egypt, the fruitful parent of superstition, afforded the antony first example
... The venerable patriarch (for An antony attained the age of one hundred and ..."
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