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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Atlas giant in an ancient Greek story who had to hold up the sky; because his name was used as the title of a 16th-century book of maps

atlas

 noun
     
Related topics: Geography
at‧las [countable]
SG a book containing maps, especially of the whole world ➔ road atlas
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