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Atlantis   /ætlˈæntɪs/  /ætlˈænɪs/   Listen
Atlantis

noun
1.
According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake.





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"Atlantis" Quotes from Famous Books



... and beauty kept charnel-house together. That old Johannes Maartens, with no hint of romance in that stolid face and grizzly square head of his, sought the islands of Solomon, the mines of Golconda—ay, he sought old lost Atlantis which he hoped to find still afloat unscuppered. And he ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... A newe worlde. Howbeit it cannot be denied but that Antiquitie had some kinde of dimme glimse, and vnperfect notice thereof. Which may appeare by the relation of Plato in his two worthy dialogues of Timaeus and Critias vnder the discourse of that mighty large yland called by him Atlantis, lying in the Ocean sea without the Streight of Hercules, now called the Straight of Gibraltar, being (as he there reporteth) bigger then Africa and Asia: And by that of Aristotle in his booke De admirandis auditionibus of the long nauigation of certaine Carthaginians, who sayling forth ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt


Words linked to "Atlantis" :   mythical place, fictitious place, imaginary place


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