2. Noun. (plural of pleiad) ¹
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Definition of Pleiads
1. pleiad [n] - See also: pleiad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleiads
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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