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Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters noun: the jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.

Noun

Seven Sisters (plural Seven Sisters)

  1. (India) The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.

Proper noun

the Seven Sisters

  1. A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
  2. A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
  3. The Pleiades.
  4. A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
  5. A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
    Synonyms:
    Blaendulais
  6. A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
    • Thirty minutes later I was in a BMW with a blue flasher and a fresh set of black coats, running reds and doing downtown Moscow in the wrong lane. Next thing I knew, I was up in one of the Seven Sisters, with Volkov—2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 327
  7. An unincorporated community in Duval County, Texas, United States.

Synonyms of Seven Sisters

Forms of Seven Sisters

pluralSeven Sisters

Questions about Seven Sisters

What does Seven Sisters mean?
Seven Sisters means the jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
What part of speech is Seven Sisters?
Seven Sisters can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Seven Sisters?
The plural of Seven Sisters is Seven Sisters.

Words near Seven Sisters in the dictionary

  1. seven out
  2. Seven Sages
  3. seven seals
  4. seven seas
  5. seven shades
  6. Seven Sisters
  7. Seven Sleepers' Day
  8. Seven Stars
  9. seven thousand
  10. seven virtues
  11. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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