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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

“Judging from the only Pleiad that remains,” thought Bernard, “you may well say so—and can you,” he added, aloud, “forgive those who have thus injured you?”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

I can see only six of them, and there is a famous old tale 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 spark-like light my son lit, reminded me of the lost Pleiad.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Owen, Luella Agnes

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

They were, pre-eminently, excellent describers of states of the soul, admirable psychological moralists and they were the ancestors of the highly remarkable pleiad of English psychologists of the nineteenth century.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile

"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

This brother was a star scholar, and Friedrich looked up to him as a pleiad of pedagogy.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert

She produced an admirable pleiad of poets and prose writers of high merit.

From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.