Definition of Pleiad

1. n. One of the Pleiades.

Definition of Pleiad

1. Proper noun. (mythology) any one of the Pleiades ¹

2. Proper noun. a group of 16th century French poets who sought to enrich the French language ¹

3. Noun. (astronomy demonym) a member of the Pleiades cluster ¹

4. Noun. a group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pleiad

1. a group of seven illustrious persons [n -S or -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleiad

pledgeless
pledgeor
pledgeors
pledger
pledgeries
pledgers
pledgery
pledges
pledget
pledgets
pledgetted suture
pledging
pledgor
pledgors
plegepoda
pleiad
pleiades
pleiads
pleinairism
pleinairisms
pleinairist
pleinairists
pleio-
pleiocene
pleiophyllous
pleiopod
pleiopods
pleiopus
pleiosaurus
pleiotaxies

Literary usage of Pleiad

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

1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE LOST Pleiad FOUND SONNET TO THE ALABAMA FLAG Long years ago, at night, a female star Fled from amid the Spheres, and through the space Of Ether, onward, ..."

2. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1846)
"THE LOST Pleiad. BENEATH the star-sprent dome of heaven, A splendid palace hung: The mansion of the beauteous seven, The Pleiad sisters, young. ..."

3. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"THE SINKING OF THE Pleiad OMAN, be sparing of life, neither go on seafaring beyond the time; even so the life of man is not long. ..."

4. The Literature of the French Renaissance by Arthur Augustus Tilley (1904)
"The work of the Pleiad. The first great achievement of the Pleiad was the ... It is true that the Pleiad by no means learnt all the lessons that the great ..."

5. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1906)
"THE 'MEMOIRS* — DE RETZ AND LA ROCHEFOUCAULD— PHILOSOPHY OF THE 'FRONDE"—'LES MAXIMES.' THE poets of the Pleiad attempted more than they waning of were a°le ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"The Pleiad, a Series of Abridgments from Seven distinguished Writers on the Evidences of Christianity. By the Venerable Francis ..."

7. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE LOST Pleiad FOUND SONNET TO THE ALABAMA FLAG Long years ago, at night, a female star Fled from amid the Spheres, and through the space Of Ether, onward, ..."

8. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1846)
"THE LOST Pleiad. BENEATH the star-sprent dome of heaven, A splendid palace hung: The mansion of the beauteous seven, The Pleiad sisters, young. ..."

9. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"THE SINKING OF THE Pleiad OMAN, be sparing of life, neither go on seafaring beyond the time; even so the life of man is not long. ..."

10. The Literature of the French Renaissance by Arthur Augustus Tilley (1904)
"The work of the Pleiad. The first great achievement of the Pleiad was the ... It is true that the Pleiad by no means learnt all the lessons that the great ..."

11. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1906)
"THE 'MEMOIRS* — DE RETZ AND LA ROCHEFOUCAULD— PHILOSOPHY OF THE 'FRONDE"—'LES MAXIMES.' THE poets of the Pleiad attempted more than they waning of were a°le ..."

12. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"The Pleiad, a Series of Abridgments from Seven distinguished Writers on the Evidences of Christianity. By the Venerable Francis ..."

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