Atlantis — English Dictionary

Proper noun

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

   Examples

   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!

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

1. according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake

   Broader terms

   imaginary placemythical placefictitious place