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  Pleiad

  noun

  any of the Pleiades.
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  pleiad

  noun

  a brilliant or talented group, esp one with seven members

Pleiad

American  

[plee-uhd, plahy-uhd] / ˈpli əd, ˈplaɪ əd /

noun

1. any of the Pleiades.

2. French Pléiade.  a group of seven French poets of the latter half of the 16th century.

3. (usually lowercase) any group of eminent or brilliant persons or things, especially when seven in number.

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Pleiad ¹ British  

/ ˈplaɪəd /

noun

1. one of the Pleiades (stars or daughters of Atlas)

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pleiad ² British  

/ ˈplaɪəd /

noun

1. a brilliant or talented group, esp one with seven members

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Etymology

Origin of pleiad

C16: originally French Pléiade, name given by Pierre de Ronsard to himself and six other poets after a group of Alexandrian Greek poets who were called this after the _Pleiades ¹

Example Sentences

John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a man's whole spirit is like the lost Pleiad, a blown-out star, Is there comfort in Holloway, Bill? is there hope of salvation in Parr?

From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Seven angels, like the Pleiad seven, Their lips to silver clarions given, Blew welcome round the walls of heaven.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Shall he yet find means, by the clarity of his messengers and the invincibility of his power, to overtake and reclaim the lost and wandering Pleiad, and restore the fugitive to its celestial companions?

From The History of Peru by Beebe, Henry S.

Like the lost Pleiad, "seen no more below," the bright star of her life had left the sky.

From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia