noun one who sustains a great burden.
2. atlas ·noun a collection of maps in a volume.
3. atlas ·noun a rich kind of satin manufactured in india.
4. atlas ·noun a volume of plates illustrating any subject.
5. atlas ·noun a drawing paper of large size. ·see under paper, ·noun.
6. atlas ·noun a large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps;
called also atlas folio.
7. atlas ·noun a work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
8. atlas ·noun the first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.