Atlantis

[ at-lan-tis ]

/ ætˈlæn tɪs /

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noun

a legendary island, first mentioned by Plato, said to have existed in the Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar and to have sunk beneath the sea, but linked by some modern archaeologists with the island of Thera, the surviving remnant of a much larger island destroyed by a volcanic eruption c1500 b.c.

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Words nearby Atlantis

Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Provinces, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic Standard Time, Atlantic time, Atlantis, atlanto-, atlantoaxial, atlanto-occipital membrane, at large, atlas

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How to use Atlantis in a sentence

That eruption might have inspired the legend of the sunken city of Atlantis.
Greece’s Santorini volcano erupts more when the sea level drops|Maria Temming|August 24, 2021|Science News For Students
That’s an impressive milestone that means the only vehicles that have made more spaceflights than this rocket are the NASA space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia, and Endeavor.
SpaceX Rocket Flies 10 Times as Reusability Gets Surprisingly Routine|Edd Gent|May 17, 2021|Singularity Hub
By God, if that satellite hit Atlantis, they could very well lose the astronauts as they slept.
How a Thanksgiving Day gag ruffled feathers in Mission Control|Eric Berger|November 23, 2020|Ars Technica
The philosopher, Plato, linked Santorini with the mythical lost city of Atlantis that sank beneath the waves.
Book a Room for Two in a Santorini Cave|Joanna Eede|June 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

His 1985 novel Masters of Atlantis concerns the plight of the Gnomons, a group dedicated to sharing the mysteries of Atlantis.
What a Real Cult Novel Looks Like|Drew Toal|April 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In Masters of Atlantis, newspaper people “treat as pests those who walk in off the street with inquiries, or even news.”
Charles Portis, a Journalist With True Grit|Jay Jennings|September 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Shroud is generally lumped in with silly-season subjects, such as Atlantis, yetis, and UFOs.
The Shroud of Turin and Thomas de Wesselow’s ‘The Sign.’|Thomas de Wesselow|April 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Yet, unlike such Grail-oriented conspiracies (and Atlantis, yetis and UFOs), the Shroud very definitely exists.
The Shroud of Turin and Thomas de Wesselow’s ‘The Sign.’|Thomas de Wesselow|April 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The same writer says that the Athenians waged war with the inhabitants of Atlantis, and might therefore have heard of America.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5|Hubert Howe Bancroft
To the student of those days a mysterious drowned Atlantis again rose splendid from the waves of the great deep.
The Secret Glory|Arthur Machen
Sooner or later some hardy sailor would find the surviving peaks of this new Atlantis.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate|Ellis Meredith
Even the words Atlas and Atlantis seem to be foreign to the etymology of the European languages.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
I dreamed that America had got itself in such trouble that thousands of people were leaving to live in Atlantis.
The Crow's Nest|Clarence Day, Jr.

British Dictionary definitions for Atlantis

Atlantis

/ (ətˈlæntɪs) /

noun

(in ancient legend) a continent said to have sunk beneath the Atlantic Ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for Atlantis

Atlantis

A kingdom in classical mythology. According to legend, it was once an island in the Atlantic Ocean, was swallowed up in an earthquake, and is now covered by the sea.