Definition of Hyades

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward.

Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Nymph

Definition of Hyades

1. n. pl. A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.

Definition of Hyades

1. Proper noun. (Greek god) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades. ¹

2. Proper noun. (astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyades

Huygens' ocular
Huygens' principle
Huygens' principle of superposition
Huyghenian
Hwang Ho
Hx
Hyacinth
Hyacinthaceae
Hyacinthian
Hyacinthoides
Hyacinthoides nonscripta
Hyacinthus
Hyacinthus candicans
Hyacinthus orientalis
Hyacinthus orientalis albulus
Hyades
Hyaena brunnea
Hyaena hyaena
Hyaenidae
Hyalomma
Hyalomma anatolicum
Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum
Hyalomma marginatum
Hyalomma truncatum
Hyalomma variegatum
Hyalophora
Hyalophora cecropia
Hyalospongiae
Hyazyme

Literary usage of Hyades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Pleiades and hyades. — Owing to their conspicuous character, ... They and the hyades were said to have been originally the daughters of Atlas through a ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"Pleiades and hyades. — Owing to their conspicuous character, ... They and the hyades were said to have been originally the daughters of Atlas through a ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"hyades. The hyades, according to Ovid, were nymphs, daughters of Atlas •and ... The chief of the hyades in the left eye of Taurus, is the bright star called ..."

4. The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy by Amédée Guillemin (1867)
"Such, for example, is the group of the Pleiades. Such, again, the groups known under the names of the hyades, ..."

5. The mythology of ancient Greece and Italy by Thomas Keightley (1838)
"Pleiades et hyades. The Pleiades were said to be seven in number, ... The hyades are by some also called daughters of Atlas,; but according to the best ..."

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