Definitions for Alcyones

Alcyones Al·cy·o·ne

Spelling: [al-sahy-uh-nee]
IPA: /ælˈsaɪ əˌni/

Alcyones is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in Alcyones (acelnosy).

Definitions for Alcyones

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  1. a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
  2. Also, Halcyon, Halcyone. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Aeolus who, with her husband, Ceyx, was transformed into a kingfisher.

Examples for Alcyones

Alcyone from the first disliked the idea of the ball, and all the rampant merriment connected with it.

Alcyone, the daughter of olus, married Ceyx, who was drowned as he was going to Claros to consult an oracle.

It was about this time that the artful Countess Olga began once more to drop poisoned words about the court concerning Alcyone.

It is true that it was totally against her own wish that Alcyone took so active a part in the gay world.

Alcyone never raised her head, but bent over her child, whom she carried in her arms.

One of the medium sized worlds that revolve around Alcyone sustains the shortest lived human beings of our universe.

Here Alcyone's gentle unassuming manners, added to her great beauty, made her a universal favourite.

The Alcyone dessert wine based on Tannat is an incredible wine for these types of chocolate.

The transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone into sea-gulls gives the poet an opportunity to tell of and praise conjugal fidelity.

As for a central sun hypothesis, that pointing out Alcyone in particular, there is no reliable evidence whatever.

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