0 a group of stars that is one of the nearest to Earth:
If you look at the Pleiades through a pair of binoculars, you see more than a hundred stars.
1 in Greek mythology (= ancient stories), seven sisters who were changed into a group of stars by Zeus:
The Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
The constellation of the Pleiades is known as the Seven Sisters.
On the evening of 3 April, Venus passes right in front of the Pleiades.
On the same day each year the star cluster Pleiades first became visible in the dawn sky.
