Definition of Pleiads

1. Proper noun. (astronomy demonym) (plural of Pleiad) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of pleiad) ¹

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Definition of Pleiads

1. pleiad [n] - See also: pleiad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleiads

pledgeors
pledger
pledgeries
pledgers
pledgery
pledges
pledget
pledgets
pledgetted suture
pledging
pledgor
pledgors
plegepoda
pleiad
pleiades
pleiads (current term)
pleinairism
pleinairisms
pleinairist
pleinairists
pleio-
pleiocene
pleiophyllous
pleiopod
pleiopods
pleiopus
pleiosaurus
pleiotaxies
pleiotaxy
pleiotrophic

Literary usage of Pleiads

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

1. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"The comparison with the pleiads was the more fitting as one of them (Taygeta) was the mother of Lake- daimon and Eurotas. Since in Sparta choruses of ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"FRAGMENT I. THB pleiads now no more arc seen, Nor shines the silver Moon strene, In dark and dismal clouds ..."

3. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"363 pleiads. And from the P. fruitful show'rs descend Sp. 102 Plenteous. Our/, streams a various race supply WF 141 Plenty. The rich is happy in the/, ..."

4. Grammar of the Gaelic language by E. O'Conor (1808)
"... than seemest to make a string of pearls : come, sing them sweetly : for heaven seems to have shed en thy poetry the clearness and beauty of the pleiads. ..."

5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1900)
"31 the sufferer is asked if he can (or did) tie the bonds of the pleiads, ... To him the pleiads are typical of union, the stars of the Great Bear of ..."

6. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"The comparison with the pleiads was the more fitting as one of them (Taygeta) was the mother of Lake- daimon and Eurotas. Since in Sparta choruses of ..."

7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"FRAGMENT I. THB pleiads now no more arc seen, Nor shines the silver Moon strene, In dark and dismal clouds ..."

8. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"363 pleiads. And from the P. fruitful show'rs descend Sp. 102 Plenteous. Our/, streams a various race supply WF 141 Plenty. The rich is happy in the/, ..."

9. Grammar of the Gaelic language by E. O'Conor (1808)
"... than seemest to make a string of pearls : come, sing them sweetly : for heaven seems to have shed en thy poetry the clearness and beauty of the pleiads. ..."

10. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1900)
"31 the sufferer is asked if he can (or did) tie the bonds of the pleiads, ... To him the pleiads are typical of union, the stars of the Great Bear of ..."

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