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Anthony is a alternative form of antony.

As proper nouns the difference between antony and anthony

is that antony is a given name derived from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony while Anthony is a given name derived from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages. antony

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
  • * ~1607 William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene I :
    • Demetrius . Is Caesar with Antonius priz'd so slight? Philo . Sir, sometimes, when he's not Antony ,
  • *:: He comes too short of that great property
  • *:: Which still should go with Antony .

    • Related terms

    * Tony

    Anagrams

    * anthony

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Antony

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , in regular use since the Middle Ages.
  • * 1922 , 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 ?"
  • A city in Kansas
  • A city in New Mexico
  • 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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