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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

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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

One of the most interesting is the fading of the 7th Pleiad, due, according to Ovid, to grief at the taking of Troy.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

There are a great many old tales about the lost Pleiad.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen

A bit of mould is a Pleiad of flowers—a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

"One of the stars in his pleiad was covered with a black cloud while I made my observations."

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre

Hence is sprung a pleiad of inventors, its brightest star being our great Joseph Jackson.

From In the Year 2889 by Verne, Jules

It must not be forgotten that it was by the most extravagant largesses, by making a traffic of everything, that he encouraged the pleiad of artists who shed such glory upon his name.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The humane society never heard of him, the neighbors did not miss him, and the law took no cognizance of this detached citizen—this lost pleiad.

From The Shape of Fear by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

We bring you the lost pleiad of your heart.

From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various