What does atop mean?

Definitions for atop
əˈtɒpatop

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. atopadverb

    on, to, or at the top

Wiktionary

  1. atopadverb

    On, to, or at the top.

  2. atoppreposition

    On the top of.

    He sat atop the mountain, waiting for the end of the world.

  3. atoppreposition

    On the top, with "of".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Atopadverb

    On the top; at the top.

    Etymology: from a and top.

    Atop whereof, but far more rich, appear’d
    The work as of a kingly palace-gate. Par. Lost, b. iii.

    What is extracted by water from coffee is the oil, which often swims atop of the decoction. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Atopadverb

    on or at the top

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Atop

    a-top′, adv. on or at the top. [Prep. a, and Top.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of atop in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of atop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of atop in a Sentence

  1. Wallace Gregson:

    The North Korean leadership sits atop a worldwide global mafia and money flows in channels that are at least difficult to get to, even if we know about them.

  2. Lee Jeong-eun:

    My prediction that a Korean woman would be atop the leaderboard at the Women's US Open was based on statistics and facts, korean women are absolutely dominating the LPGA Tour. If you asked me again my answer would be the same but worded more carefully.

  3. John Boehner:

    There is a reason President McKinley's name has served atop the highest peak in North America for more than 100 years, and that is because it is a testament to his great legacy.

  4. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:

    I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

  5. Gilad Ilatch:

    It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, … right in front of our eyes and those of the excited students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high (7 inches) was exposed, atop of is the image of a person….

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