Word.ws English Dictionary

pleiad

pleiad noun: a group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members.

Noun (1)

pleiad (plural pleiads)

  1. A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members.

Proper noun capitalized: Pleiad

Pleiad

  1. (historical) A group of 16th-century French poets who sought to enrich the French language.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pleiad

Pleiad (plural Pleiads)

  1. (Greek) Any one of the Pleiades.
  2. (demonym) A member of the Pleiades cluster.

Forms of pleiad

pluralpleiads
pluralPleiads

Origin of pleiad

Probably from the English Pleiades, divine sisters in Greek mythology who were believed to have been placed in the heavens as a well known group of seven stars.

Questions about pleiad

What does pleiad mean?
Pleiad means a group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members.
What part of speech is pleiad?
Pleiad can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pleiad?
The plural of pleiad is pleiads.

Words near pleiad in the dictionary

  1. plegaphony
  2. plegia
  3. plegias
  4. plegometer
  5. plegometers
  6. pleiad
  7. Pleiadean
  8. Pleiadeans
  9. pleiadene
  10. Pleiades
  11. Pleiadian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pleiad (page history and authors); Pleiad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pleiad.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pleiad. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.