Atlantes(n. pl.)
- Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
Atlantic(a.)
- Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
Atlantic(a.)
- Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.