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Alcyone

[ al-sahy-uh-nee ]

noun

  1. a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
  2. Also Hal·cy·on [] Hal·cy·o·ne []. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Aeolus who, with her husband, Ceyx, was transformed into a kingfisher.


Alcyone

1

/ ælˈsaɪənɪ /

noun

  1. Also calledHalcyone the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, who drowned herself in grief for her husband's death. She was transformed into a kingfisher See also Ceyx
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Alcyone

2

/ ælˈsaɪənɪ /

noun

  1. the brightest star system in the Pleiades, located in the constellation Taurus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

His wife Alcyone was also of high descent; she was the daughter of Aeolus, King of the Winds.

On the opening day of the Alcyone course, Laurence introduces the research and gives a crash course in “interpersonal psychology”, which is concerned with communication and how it breaks down.

Its latest production, the Baroque opera “Alcyone,” hasn’t been performed in Paris in 246 years — and the new version includes avant-garde staging, and even acrobats.

“The African American in the United States was the oppressed figure, and this was to demonstrate the consistent evil of the West,” says Alcyone Scott, one of King’s translators on the Berlin trip.

The idea came to Garces when he and his team were eating at a winery in Uruguay that produces the aromatic Alcyone Tannat.

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