Atlas

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.