Explore Pleiades through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like nymph or bunch. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pleiades in a sentence
Pleiades meaning
- The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
- An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
Synonyms of Pleiades
Using Pleiades
- The main meaning on this page is: The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione. | An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
- Useful related words include: nymph, bunch, clump, cluster.
- In the example corpus, pleiades often appears in combinations such as: the pleiades, pleiades in, pleiades the.
Context around Pleiades
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pleiades
- In this selection, "pleiades" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, krittika, star, cluster and show stand out and add context to how "pleiades" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the pleiades star cluster and be the pleiades. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pleiades" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pleiades
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The very first Pleiades show at Elastic was in October 2021. (11 words)
Like most open clusters, the Pleiades will not stay gravitationally bound forever. (12 words)
Now focus on the stars of the Pleiades to see their blue color. (13 words)
The first confirmed brown dwarf was discovered by Spanish astrophysicists Rafael Rebolo (head of team), Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, and Eduardo Martín in 1994. citation They called this object Teide 1 and it was found in the Pleiades open cluster. (40 words)
P. V. Vartak suggests in his book, The Scholarly Dating of Mahabharat, that the "slipping of Abhijit" and ascension of Krittika (Pleiades) might refer to the gradual drop of Vega as a pole star since 12,000 BC. (38 words)
Esther has been to five other continents already, but researching the Aboriginal legends of the Pleiades in Australia has been her ultimate goal since she began applying for the Lilly grant annually about 10 years ago. (36 words)
Like the Pleiades, it’s more visually attractive with a low-power magnification and wide field eyepiece because you’ll be able to take in all of the glorious sight! (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
The following table gives details of the brightest stars in the cluster: A map of the Pleiades The location of the Pleiades on the constellation Taurus.
Like the Pleiades, it’s more visually attractive with a low-power magnification and wide field eyepiece because you’ll be able to take in all of the glorious sight!
The very first Pleiades show at Elastic was in October 2021.
Now focus on the stars of the Pleiades to see their blue color.
Part of that gang includes the Pleiades, the best star cluster in the sky, resembling a miniature Big Dipper.
The orange giant star Aldebaran in Taurus and the Pleiades star cluster also grace the scene.
A few years ago, a museum in Australia hosted a temporary display of Aboriginal artwork related to the Pleiades constellation.
Esther has been to five other continents already, but researching the Aboriginal legends of the Pleiades in Australia has been her ultimate goal since she began applying for the Lilly grant annually about 10 years ago.
To the right of the image is the Pleiades cluster, and in the bottom left is the star Aldebaran.
Composition X-ray images of the Pleiades reveal the stars with the hottest atmospheres.
He demonstrated a relationship between the star colors and their magnitudes, and in 1929 noticed that the Hyades and Praesepe clusters had different stellar populations than the Pleiades.
However, in 1918 the Dutch-American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was able to measure the proper motion of stars in part of the Pleiades cluster by comparing photographic plates taken at different times.
It is suggested that the Pleiades are called the hens of Frigg or of Freya by Norse peoples.
Later work consistently argued that the Hipparcos distance measurement for the Pleiades was erroneous.
Like most open clusters, the Pleiades will not stay gravitationally bound forever.
P. V. Vartak suggests in his book, The Scholarly Dating of Mahabharat, that the "slipping of Abhijit" and ascension of Krittika (Pleiades) might refer to the gradual drop of Vega as a pole star since 12,000 BC.
Results prior to the launch of the Hipparcos satellite generally found that the Pleiades were about 135 parsecs away from Earth.
The cluster of dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades.
The first confirmed brown dwarf was discovered by Spanish astrophysicists Rafael Rebolo (head of team), Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, and Eduardo Martín in 1994. citation They called this object Teide 1 and it was found in the Pleiades open cluster.
The inlaid gold depicted the full moon, a crescent moon about 4 or 5 days old, and the Pleiades star cluster in a specific arrangement forming the earliest known depiction of celestial phenomena.
Common combinations with pleiades
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: