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Noun Concept
Categories: Architectural history, Ancient Roman architecture, Articles with short description, Atlas (mythology), Columns and entablature
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atlas  telamon  atlant  atlante  atlantes
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A figure of a man used as a supporting column WordNet 3.0
English:
architecture
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A figure of a man used as a supporting column WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In European architectural sculpture, an atlas is a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. Wikipedia
A column in the shape of a man Wikipedia Disambiguation
A figure of a man used as a column; telamon. Wiktionary
( architecture) a figure of a man used as a column; telamon. Wiktionary (translation)
A figure of a man (often Atlas) used as a pillar for support. Wiktionary
Male figure as pillar. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
column
statue
architectural sculpture
HAS KIND
Atlantean figures
DEPICTS
man
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopedic Lexicon
DIFFERENT FROM
Atlant Moscow Oblast
NAMED AFTER
Atlas
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
caryatid
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
atlas, telamon
Wikipedia
EN
atlas (architecture)
Wikidata
EN
atlas
Wiktionary
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atlas, telamon
Wikipedia Redirections
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atlantes (architecture), atlantid, Atlas the architectural term, Telamon (architecture), telamones
Wikidata Alias
EN
atlant, atlante, atlantid, telamon

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