Atlas

Meanings

Proper Noun

• 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.
• A placename
• The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

Noun

• A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

Origin

• From Latin Atlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας, either from ἁ- + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ("bear, undergo, endure") or of Pre-Greek origin.