Usually means: Star in the Pleiades cluster.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alcyone: Merriam-Webster
  2. Alcyone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Alcyone: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Alcyone: Vocabulary.com
  5. Alcyone: Wordnik
  6. Alcyone: Wiktionary
  7. Alcyone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Alcyone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. alcyone: Dictionary.com
  10. Alcyone (Pleiad), Alcyone (Pleiades), Alcyone (disambiguation), Alcyone (mythology), Alcyone (opera), Alcyone (ship), Alcyone (star), Alcyone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Alcyone: Rhymezone
  12. alcyone: FreeDictionary.org
  13. alcyone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Alcyone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Alcyone: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alcyone (wife of Ceyx), Alcyone: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alcyone: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Alcyone)

noun:  (Greek mythology) One of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
noun:  (Greek mythology) Daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
noun:  (astronomy) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character.

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