Atlas — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. 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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   • Greek
   • Countable
   • Uncountable

2. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. A placename: A place in the United States: A township in Genesee County, Michigan.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

4. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

5. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

6. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

7. A placename: A moon of Saturn.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

8. A placename: A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

9. A placename: A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

10. A surname.

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    • Countable

11. An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

    Usage

    • US usage
    • Countable
    • Uncountable

Noun

1. A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

   Usage

   • US usage

Proper noun

1. A subgroup of the Berber languages.