Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the Pleiades.
- noun A group of seven illustrious persons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a close group of small stars in the constellation Taurus, very conspicuous on winter evenings, about twenty-four degrees north of the equator, and coming to the meridian at midnight in the middle of November.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the Pleiades.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun mythology any one of the
Pleiades - proper noun a group of 16th century
French poets who sought toenrich the Frenchlanguage - noun astronomy, demonym a member of the
Pleiades cluster
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In many ways it is a more characteristic example of the culture of the Pleiad than any of its verse; and those who love the whole movement of which the Pleiad is a part, for a weird foreign grace in it, and may be looking about for a true specimen of it, cannot have a better than Joachim du Bellay and this little treatise of his.
The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866
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In many ways it is a more characteristic example of the culture of the Pleiad than any of its verse; and those who love the whole movement of which the Pleiad is a part, for a weird foreign grace in it, and may be looking about for
The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866
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Ascending the Benue about 250 m. beyond the point reached by former explorers, the little steamer "Pleiad" returned and reached the mouth of the Niger, after a voyage of 118 days, without the loss of a single man.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Since the disappearance of the "Pleiad," the most popular page 295
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A small steamer, the "Pleiad," was fitted out with a black crew and a few white officers, and in consequence of the death of
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Than thee the Pleiad-stars more chance of happy meeting show
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Under the command of one of our brave captains, the steamer Pleiad has already ascended as far as the town of Yola.
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Pleiad we count as seven, as we count the Bear as twelve, while other peoples count more stars in both.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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She is known as ` the lost Pleiad, 'for it is said that she disappeared a little before the Trojan war, that she might be saved the mortification of seeing the ruin of her beloved city.
The Annotated "Mountains of the Moon" Robert Hunter 1998
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His fellow Pleiad poet Joachim du Bellay wrote, "Nature et art ont en votre beaute I Mis tout k beau don't la beaute s'assemble":
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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