Atlas
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- //ˈætləs//
The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
proper noun
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The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
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A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.
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A placename: A place in the United States: A township in Genesee County, Michigan.
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A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
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A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
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A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.
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A placename: A moon of Saturn.
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A placename: A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
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A placename: A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
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A surname.
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An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
Etymology
From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
noun
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A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
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A subgroup of the Berber languages.
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Variant of Atlas MountainsEllipsis of Atlas Mountains
Etymology
From French Atlas. From the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone. The Berber languages exist in the region of the Atlas Mountains.
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Variant of ATLASAlternative form of ATLAS
Etymology
Alteration of ATLAS
Forms
- plural
- Atlases
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