atop
Preposition
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Preposition
- On the top of.
- He sat atop the mountain, waiting for the end of the world.
- 1966, The Minnesota Review, vol. 6, page 242
- A virtue is made out of a necessity, with the child feeling far more atop and master of his oddness, his behavior now deliberate or even clever.
- 2006, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch, page 48
- "And other things," she echoed, nodding slowly and resting her body a little more atop him again.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- “Monotheism was born here,” Goren tells me atop a cliff overlooking the sheet of iron-colored water.
- On the top, with "of".
- on top
- ontop (mainly US)
- French: au-dessus de, en haut de
- Portuguese: sobre
- Spanish: encima de
atop (not comparable)
- (literary or archaic) On, to, or at the top.
- 1909, William Dean Howells, Seven English Cities, Kessinger Publishing 2004, p. 46:
- He has a handsome face, still bearded in the midst of a mostly clean-shaving nation, and with the white hairs prevalent on the cheeks and temples; his head is bald atop, though hardly from the uneasiness of wearing a crown.
- 1978, James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous, Harper & Row 1978, p. 102:
- The envoy found the French king playing the part of horse while his young son rode atop.
- 1985, Wade Davis (anthropologist), The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 52:
- Everything large or small is carried atop out of habit as much as necessity, like a delightful but defiant challenge to the laws of gravity.
- 1909, William Dean Howells, Seven English Cities, Kessinger Publishing 2004, p. 46:
- French: en haut de
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