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Definition: ATLANTES |
ATLANTESNoun plural1. Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. |
Date "ATLANTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Atlantes \At*lan"tes\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression. See Atlas.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Atlantes Figures of men, used in architecture instead of pillars. So called from Atlas, who in Greek mythology supported the world on his shoulders. Female figures are called Caryatides (q.v.). (See Telamones.) Atlantes (3 syl.) (in Orlando Furioso). A sage and a magician who lived in an enchanted palace, and brought up Rogero to all manly virtues. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Support | Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ATLANTES |
| English words defined with "ATLANTES": Persian columns ♦ Stylagalmaic ♦ Telamones. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ATLANTES": Griffen Horse ♦ Rogero,. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ATLANTES": Atlantic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ATLANTES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (atlantes). |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
atlantes de tula | 4 |
atlantes | 2 |
atlantes symboles | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ATLANTES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kariatid (atlas, caryatid), kariatída (atlas), erkélyt tartó emberalak (atlas), épületet tartó emberalak (atlas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atlantesay atlant. (various references) atlantes. (various references) каріатиди, атланти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ATLANTES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allante, Atalantas, atalantis, athanatos, Athlant, atlant, Atlante. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ATLANTES" (pronounced 'At*lan"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Ecclesiastes, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Hymenomycetes, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: latents, lattens, saltant, sealant, talents, tetanal. | |
-2 letters: alants, alates, ansate, aslant, lanate, latens, latent, latest, latten, lattes, statal, talent. | |
-3 letters: alane, alans, alant, alate, anlas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, atlas, elans, etnas, lanes, laten, latte, leans, leant, least, nasal, natal, nates, neats, netts, setal, slant, slate, stale, stane, state, steal, stela, taels, talas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: alterants, pantalets, sultanate, tantalise, tarletans, translate. | |
+2 letters: alternates, natalities, sultanates, tantalates, tantalised, tantalises, tantalites, tantalizes, tantaluses, transeptal, translated, translates. | |
+3 letters: adulterants, alterations, alternators, antirealist, atonalities, cantillates, exaltations, gestational, insatiately, italianates, palatinates, pantalettes, paternalist, pleasantest, rattlesnake, retranslate, stalemating, statesmanly, strangulate, tantalizers, tarantellas, translative, translocate. | |
+4 letters: acetylations, adjustmental, agglutinates, altercations, alternations, alternatives, anecdotalist, anelasticity, antirealists, battlewagons, contrastable, entablatures, intercalates, intercoastal, interstadial, lamentations, mistranslate, paternalists, postneonatal, rattlebrains, rattlesnakes, retaliations, retranslated, retranslates, stalwartness, strangulated, strangulates, translatable, translocated, translocates, transmutable, transplanted, transplanter, transvaluate, triangulates, untranslated. | |
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