Definitions for Pleiades

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Pleiades Ple·ia·des

Spelling: [plee-uh-deez, plahy-]

IPA: /ˈpli əˌdiz, ˈplaɪ-/

Pleiades is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in Pleiades (adeeilps).

Definitions for Pleiades

noun

1. any of the Pleiades.
2. French Pléiade [pley-yad] /pleɪˈyad/ (Show IPA). 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.

plural noun

1. Classical Mythology. seven daughters of Atlas and half sisters of the Hyades, placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion. One of them (the Lost Pleiad, ) hides, either from grief or shame.
2. Astronomy. a conspicuous group or cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, commonly spoken of as seven, though only six are visible.

Origin of Pleiades

1350-1400; Middle English Pliades Latin Plīades Greek Pleíades (singular Pleías); akin to pleîn to sail

Examples for Pleiades

James shot the Pleiades up to within a thousand miles or so of the moon.

We'll use the Pleiades at first, while we're building a regular transport.

Brownie was willing the Pleiades to this planet so hard that we all could taste it.

Wherefore he flagged down a "taxi" and was taken out to the Pleiades.

Can I bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

The Eskimos regard the Pleiades as a team of dogs in pursuit of a bear.

Thus, if the Pleiades returned successfully to Earth, well and good.

We glance carelessly at the sunrise, and get used to Orion and the Pleiades.

When the Pleiades struck ground the impact was scarcely to be felt.

One of the stars in the constellation of the Pleiades is said to have disappeared.