Seven Sisters

English

Noun

Seven Sisters pl (plural only)

  1. (astronomy) The Pleiades.
  2. (India) The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
  3. (business) A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
  4. (education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
  5. A small area in Tottenham, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees.

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