Pleiades

//ˈpliː.əˌdiz// name

name ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione. Greek, plural
  2. 2
    An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth. plural

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seven sistersabsolute magnitudeatlantidesbeehivebinary starblack hole

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Etymology

From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”).

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