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Seven Sisters
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English
Noun
* Seven Sisters
en Indian English The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata species, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
Proper noun
Seven Sisters 1
en business A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
en Five Sisters
en education A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
en astronomy The Pleiades.
en small area x/Tottenham lbor/Haringey co/Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees OS grid ref TQ3388. Ward map (Haringey)
en village/and/wcomm in cobor:noaff/Neath Port Talbot cc/Wales OS grid ref SN8208. Community map (Wales)
en Blaendulais
A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
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—
en ucomm co/Duval County s/Texas c/USA.
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Pleiades (Greek mythology)
Seven Sisters (oil companies)
Seven Sisters (colleges)
Seven Sisters, London
Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot
Seven Sisters (Moscow)
en Laughingthrushes Seven