Meanings
- IndiaThe jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
- businessA group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
- educationA group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
- astronomyThe Pleiades.
- A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
- A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
Synonyms: Blaendulais
- 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
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
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Seven Sisters. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Seven%20Sisters
“Seven Sisters.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Seven%20Sisters. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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