Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Seven Sisters en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Seven Sisters Number=Plur lexicographic

Seven Sisters en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
  2. A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
  3. The Pleiades.
  4. A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
  5. A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
  6. 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:
  7. An unincorporated community in Duval County, Texas, United States.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
the Seven Sisters canonical lexicographic

Coordinates

Five Sisters

Synonyms

Blaendulais