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Atlantean1 /ətˈlantɪən /Mythology adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the legendary island of Atlantis: she lives in an Atlantean castle...- I myself am a native of Atlantis, but Rhea is from the Atlantean colony of Nile, which eventually became known as Egypt.
- The film plays pretty fast and loose with the Atlantean mythology.
- The Azores were supposedly the tips of Atlantean mountains.
nounA native or inhabitant of the legendary island of Atlantis: when the explorers reach the city they meet the Atlanteans...- He won't be welcome without proof of being an Atlantean.
- While doing a "reading," he reportedly discovered his patient was a reincarnated Atlantean.
- Atlanteans were far more advanced in technologies than we are, able to leave the planet and go into deep space.
RhymesDantean, Kantian Atlantean2 /ətˈlantɪən /Greek Mythology adjective1Relating to or characteristic of Atlas, one of the Titans, who was punished for his part in their revolt against Zeus by being made to support the heavens: Atlantean shoulders fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies...- "Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load Well-nigh not to be borne Of the too vast orb of her fate."
- His was no Atlantean strength, capable of sustaining any great cause steadily and firmly.
- D'Alembert abdicated responsibility as editor and left the undertaking to fall heavily on the single Atlantean shoulder of Diderot.
1.1Referring to a great weight or burden of responsibility: I’m terrified you’re going to buckle under the Atlantean burden...- They gazed on the road with a solemn, placid expression, as of men to whom the Atlantean weight of this weary world was as the down on a feather.
- Whitman set himself the Atlantean task of uplifting into the sphere of poetry the whole of modern life and man, omitting nothing, concealing nothing.
- Bold would be the man who should undertake such an Atlantean labour.
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