early 15c., from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus (11c.), from Greek antholops (attested in Eusebius of Antioch, c.336 C.E.), a fabulous animal haunting the banks of the Euphrates, [..]

grazing mammal.

Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high, but may be realized by putting forth great energy. For a young woman to see an antelope miss its footing and fall from a height, denotes the love she aspires to will prove her undoing.   

(n) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks

Any of various Ruminant Mammals of the order Bovidae. They include numerous species in Africa and the American pronghorn.

<zoology> One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. "The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell." (Spenser) The common or bezoar antelope of India is Antilope bezoartica. The chamois of the Alps, the gazell [..]