Seven Sisters

English

Noun

Seven Sisters (plural Seven Sisters)

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

Proper noun

Seven Sisters

1. (business) A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.

   Coordinate term: Five Sisters

2. (education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
3. (astronomy) The Pleiades.
4. A small area of Tottenham, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
5. A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).

   Synonym: Blaendulais

6. A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 327:

     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—

Further reading

• Pleiades (Greek mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seven Sisters (oil companies) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seven Sisters (colleges) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seven Sisters, London on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seven Sisters (Moscow) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia