Usually means: Star cluster visible from Earth.
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  1. pleiades: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pleiades, Pleiades: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pleiades: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pleiades: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pleiades: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pleiades: Vocabulary.com
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  8. Pleiades: Wiktionary
  9. Pleiades: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Pleiades: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Pleiades: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. pleiades: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Pleiades: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pleiades: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. Pleiades (mythology), Pleiades (star cluster), Pleiades: Encyclopedia

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  1. Pleiades: Easton Bible
  2. Pleiades: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. Pleiades: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. pleiades: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pleiades)

noun:  (Greek mythology) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
noun:  (astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

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