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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

The track of Marot, of Ronsard and the Pleiad and Desportes, of Rabelais and Calvin and Montaigne, is found in England.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

You are the Lost Pleiad of Literature, that's what you are; and a mighty neat phrase that is.

From Margaret Montfort by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

Tragedy was represented by the poets known as the Alexandrian Pleiad.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

The words were Charmides' own—of exquisite simplicity—twenty lines on the grief and weariness of a lost Pleiad.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

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 Émile Faguet

We bring you the lost pleiad of your heart.

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

The Minister said that Victor Hugo, while living, figured in the glorious pleiad of great poets—with Corneille, Molière, Racine, and Voltaire.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

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

From In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne

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 Elia Wilkinson Peattie