Mark Antony

American  

[mahrk an-tuh-nee] / mɑrk ˈæn tə ni /

noun

1. Antony, Mark.

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Mark Antony British  

noun

1. See Antony

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Antony, Mark Cultural  

1. A historical politician and general of ancient Rome, who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. In a famous speech in Julius Caesar, given after Caesar has been killed, Antony turns public opinion against those who did the killing. Antony's speech begins, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”; in it, he repeats several times the words “Brutus is an honorable man.”

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Example Sentences

When she was ruling Egypt and frolicking with Mark Antony, the Sphinx had already been buried up to its neck in sand for thousands of years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Understandable, since she had children with Julius Caesar and Caesar's lieutenant Mark Antony, whose death in her arms inspired future writers to romanticize their love story above the other.

From Salon • May 11, 2023

In the love duet that opens the new opera, for which Adams borrowed a few lively lines from “The Taming of the Shrew,” Finley’s Mark Antony is without heat.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

The great speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony at Caesar’s funeral were addressed to the chorus, which responded with volatile moods: aroused, becalmed, confused, manipulated.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Rome Divided Instead of launching military campaigns to gain territory, Octavian and Mark Antony focused on attacking one another.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby