a topとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɒp/
• 韻: -ɒp

前置詞

atop

1. On the top of.

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

   • 1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:

     For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped "tell-tales" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels.

   • 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)[1]

     “Monotheism was born here,” Goren tells me atop a cliff overlooking the sheet of iron-colored water.

2. On the top, with "of".

使用する際の注意点

"Atop of" was formerly much more commonly used than now.

同意語

• on top
• ontop (主に米国用法)

派生語

• thereatop

副詞

atop (not comparable)

1. (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, 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.

アナグラム

• POTA, pato