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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
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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