preposition
(especially AmE) (old-fashioned or literary in BrE) on top of; at the top of:
a flag high atop a pole * a scoop of ice cream atop a slice of apple pie * The children piled atop one another in the sand. * Fruit and vegetable prices rose 1.3 per cent atop a 2 per cent gain last month. * Coca-Cola is atop the list of best-selling soft drinks in the US.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for atop is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does atop appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — atop appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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