Seven Sisters
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Seven Sisters (plural Seven Sisters)
- (India) The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
Proper noun
[edit]- (business) A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
- Coordinate term: Five Sisters
- (education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
- (astronomy) The Pleiades.
- A small area in Tottenham, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
- A village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208). [1]
- Synonym: Blaendulais
- 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—
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]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
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