Seven Sisters
English
Noun
Seven Sisters (plural Seven Sisters)
- (India) The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
Proper noun
- (business) A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
- (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).
- Synonym: Blaendulais
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
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