Crossword-Solution: PLEIADES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pleiades | n. pl. | The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. |
| Pleiades | n. pl. | A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLEIADES | anagram | SLEEPAID |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PLEIADES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Seven Sisters of the sky | 1 answer |
| a star cluster in the constellation Taurus | 1 answer |
| The seven daughters of Atlas | 1 answer |
| Taurus cluster | 1 answer |
| TAURUS constellation, cluster of stars in the shoulder of | 1 answer |
| Star group in Taurus | 1 answer |
| Seven nymphs of Greek myth | 1 answer |
| Seven daughters of Atlas. | 1 answer |
| Seven Sisters star cluster in Taurus | 1 answer |
| Group represented in Subaru's logo | 1 answer |
| Daughters who became stars | 1 answer |
| Cluster in Taurus | 1 answer |
| Atlas' seven daughters | 1 answer |
| STAR cluster in Taurus | 2 answers |
| Cluster of stars? | 4 answers |
| CLUSTER STAR SUN NOVA ASTERISK | 10 answers |
| A CLUSTER OF SEVEN STARS IN URSA MINOR | 10 answers |
| star group | 10 answers |
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Sentences with PLEIADES (5)
The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it swung itself forth above the rim of the landscape.
Why does he number the Pole-star thus? Or the Pleiades why combine? And what is he doing with Sirius, In the devil's name or in mine? Man thinks, discarding the beaten track, That the sins of his youth are slain, When he seeks fresh sins, but he soon comes back To his old pet sins again.
One group looks like a swarm of bees, Papa says they're the Pleiades; But I think they must be the toy Of some nice little angel boy.
Very similar is his reference to seasons through what happens or is done in that season: ‘when the House-carrier, fleeing the Pleiades, climbs up the plants from the earth’, is the season for harvesting; or ‘when the artichoke flowers and the clicking grass-hopper, seated in a tree, pours down his shrill song’, is the time for rest.
But now the steps Of morn approaching tinged the eastern sky With roseate hues: the Pleiades were dim, The wagon of the Charioteer grew pale, The planets faded, and the silvery star Which ushers in the day, was lost in light.
Quotes with PLEIADES (3)
The Pleiades and northern lights are still above the mountain. The mountain is in the east, and on its slopes there are reindeer. Reindeer always remind me of trees that have taken to moving. They remind me even more of trees than people do. In the distant past, reindeer were trees as people were, but they haven't come such a long way from their origins, and the branches can be seen although they no longer bear leaves. I have my bedtime book in my hand and my pocket light and…
Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
The night sky is filled brimful as a night sky can be, lit brightly as it is with clusters of planets and pulsating stars and marriages of galaxies, all of it within a wobble of dust and gas and debris unseen. There are the Dippers Little and Big tonight, a lovely Pleiades, and a throbbing red star out like a tiny heart. This is the stuff of which we are made, I say to Son, all that is of us above us. We stand together looking upward, our mouths hung open as if to swallow wha…
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1946–2019).