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Atlantis

//ətˈlæntəs// name

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

    "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!"

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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

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