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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • preposition On top of.
  • adverb To, on, or at the top.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • On or at the top.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb On or at the top.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • preposition On the top of.
  • preposition On the top, with "of".
  • adverb On, to, or at the top.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb on, to, or at the top

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Examples

  • At least one GOP insider who had direct contact with Steele told the Washington Post that the chairman would indeed be seeking another term atop the RNC.

    Michael Steele Expected To Throw In The Towel On RNC Reelection: Reports The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • SANDWICH, England - For the first time in 11 months, Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green in the early stages of a major championship and did not see his name atop the leader board.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • The only thing that never changed was his name atop the leaderboard in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • I see the name atop the Jets Stream and I ask myself, WHY?

    NY Daily News 2011

  • Perhaps Icahn simply sees Clorox as a trophy, with the opportunity to place his name atop one of the nation's most venerable enterprises Clorox will be celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2013.

    unknown title 2011

  • SANDWICH, England - For the first time in 11 months, Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green in the early stages of a major championship and did not see his name atop the leader board.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • For the first time in 11 months, Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green in the middle of a major championship and did not see his name atop the leaderboard.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Doug Ferguson 2011

  • SYDNEY AP - Tiger Woods walked off golf course to see his name atop the leaderboard Friday in the Australian Open.

    CNN.com 2011

  • SANDWICH, England - For the first time in 11 months, Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green in the early stages of a major championship and did not see his name atop the leaderboard.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Charlie Wi is pleasant by nature, so he was not likely to be insulted when someone asked him if it felt like an out-of-body experience to see his name atop the leaderboard through two rounds of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

    www.startribune.com 2012

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