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Definition of Pleiad

Pleiad
Pleiad Ple"iad, n. One of the Pleiades.

Meaning of Pleiad from wikipedia

- mentions the Pleiades in his poem "Locksley Hall": Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled...
- am witness, queen though I am, if I was ever born myself one of those Pleiads, seven girls whom our mother once carried under her heart in labour, seven...
- Alcyone The Elean Pleiad Nymph Member of the Pleiades The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder Other names Asterope Abode Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later Pisa in Elis...
- Glaukos, Thersander and Almus. The star Merope is often called the "lost Pleiad" because she was at first not seen by astronomers or charted like her sisters...
- The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC (Alexandria was at that time the literary...
- Ancient Gr**** Lexicon. Retrieved 29 July 2023. "ALCYONE (Alkyone) - Boeotian Pleiad Nymph of Gr**** Mythology". Theoi Project. Retrieved 29 July 2023. Athenaeus...
- Celaeno The Boeotian Pleiad Nymph Member of the Pleiades The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder Abode Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later Mt. Cithaeron in Boeotia Genealogy...
- Tecmo) and licensed to Centuri. The name is shown on the title screen as Pleiads. The title comes from the mythical Gr**** Pleiades, the seven daughters...
- Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice and Perimede. Sisyphus married the Pleiad Merope by whom he became the father of Ornytion (Porphyrion), Glaucus, Thersander...
- messenger of the gods, and is often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad. He is regarded as "the divine trickster", about which the Homeric Hymn...