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What does Atlas mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) 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 Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
  2. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
  3. (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant of the moon.
  4. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
  5. (warfare, US) Intercontinental ballistic missile.
Name
  1. A male given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A mythological demigod who supported the sky on his shoulders.
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But Stack carries the comic weight of the show on his puny underdeveloped shoulders and succeeds as an Atlas of anarchy.
So when in 1971 he produced his best-seller, the Atlas, combining travel and wine, it was not a surprise.
The Economist compares New York City to Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders.
Today, the colossal bronze statue of Atlas stands on the site of the Mills house.
During the Depression in 1931 the company began manufacturing the well-known Atlas electric ranges.
Strange to say, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Atlas of Moonee Nature Reserve doesn't list this Joe Blake.

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