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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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Albert Pike

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 Julia Ellen Rogers

"Five of the rebels like satellites round her, Burned in her orbit of splendor and fear, One like the Pleiad of mystical story Shot terror-stricken beyond her dread sphere."

From Dewey and Other Naval Commanders by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Euripides speaks of these "seven paths," and Eratosthenes calls them "the seven-starred Pleiad," although he describes one as "All-Invisible."

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

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

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

From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.

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

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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

We bring you the lost pleiad of your heart.

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

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