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Word: Atlas
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century (originally denoting a person who supported a great burden): via Latin from Greek Atlas, the Titan of Greek mythology who supported the heavens and whose picture appeared at the front of early atlases
ˈatləs
a book of maps or charts
Short Definition:book of maps or charts
Examples:- I looked in the atlas to see where Naples was
- a road atlas
the topmost vertebra of the backbone, articulating with the occipital bone of the skull.
Short Definition:topmost vertebra of backbone, articulating with occipital bone of skull
a stone carving of a male figure, used as a column to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.
Short Definition:stone carving of male figure, used as column to support entablature of Greek or Greek-style building
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