Atlas — meaning in English
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English meaning
- atlas noun A book of maps, often with extra tables, charts, or explanatory text.
Senses
Atlas is used for these senses in English:
- Atlas (Greek god) 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.
- atlas (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
atlas — full definition
- noun A book of maps, often with extra tables, charts, or explanatory text.
- noun A bound collection of tables, charts, or illustrations covering a particular subject.
- noun The topmost bone of the neck, which supports the skull and allows it to nod.