Definitions for Hyades

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Hyades Hy·a·des

Spelling: [hahy-uh-deez]

IPA: /ˈhaɪ əˌdiz/

Hyades is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in Hyades (adehsy).

Definitions for Hyades

noun

1. Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
2. Classical Mythology. a group of nymphs and sisters of the Pleiades who nurtured the infant Dionysus and were placed among the stars as a reward.

Origin of Hyades

1350-1400; Middle English Hiades Latin Greek, equivalent to hý(ein) to rain + -ades, plural of -as -ad¹

Examples for Hyades

The name Aldebaran seems to have been originally applied to the whole of the Hyades group.

He was peculiarly named Hues, and his priests were the Hyades and Hyautes.

Here also are the great moving star clusters such as the Pleiades and the Hyades and all of the brilliant "Orion" stars.

Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

Both the Pleiades and the Hyades are celestial constellations.

With Aldebaran rises the beautiful V-shaped group of the Hyades.

Another naked-eye double is formed by θ1 and θ2, in the Hyades.

Note two pretty pairs in the Hyades, one south of Aldebaran, the other northwest of it.

Spenser's term for the Hyades, a group of seven stars in the head of the Bull.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.