Seven Sisters

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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 in Tottenham, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
  5. A village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208). [1]
    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—

References

  1. ^ Community map (Wales)

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