Atlantis

proper nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ətˈlæntəs//
United States//ətˈlæntəs//
United States/[ət̚ˈlæɾ̃ɪs]/

A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

proper noun

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A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

Atlanta · The capital and largest city of Georgia, United States and…atlantic · Of or pertaining to the atlas, the uppermost vertebra in the…Atlantic · The Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantis · A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

atlas · A bound collection of maps often including tables,…Atlas · The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans…ATLAS · A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on…

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