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Meaning of perioecus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
pɛɹɪˈiːkəs

Definitions

Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.

obsolete

Examples

“How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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