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• Antony

Proper noun

Anthony

1. A male given name, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
   • 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned:

     "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should Anthony look?" "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."

   • 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English, Random House, page 245:

     It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony, a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like Stephen, Peter, Michael, etc., in this country.

   • 1955 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter Five:

     She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint Anthony," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint Anthony?" her husband said. "Who's Saint Anthony?"

2. A patronymic surname​.
3. A city in Kansas
4. A city in New Mexico
5. A town in Texas

Related terms

• (pet forms) Tony, Ant
• (variants) Antonio, Antoine, Anton
• (feminine names) Antonia, Antoinette, Toni, Tonia, Tonya

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