'Hyades' definitions:
Definition of 'Hyades'
(from WordNet)
noun
(Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward
Definition of 'Hyades'
From: GCIDE
- Hyades \Hyades\ n. (Greek mythology) The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward. [WordNet 1.5] Hyades
Definition of 'Hyades'
From: GCIDE
- Hyades \Hy"a*des\, Hyads \Hy"ads\, n. pl. [L. Hyades, Gr. ?.] (Astron.) A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. [1913 Webster]
- Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Hyades'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute magnitude,
- Atlantides,
- Beehive,
- binary star,
- black hole,
- Cepheid variable,
- double star,
- dryad,
- dwarf star,
- fixed star,
- flower nymph,
- giant star,
- glen nymph,
- globular cluster,
- gravity star,
- hamadryad,
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram,
- limoniad,
- magnitude,
- main sequence star,
- mass-luminosity law,
- Messier catalog,
- mountain nymph,
- Napaea,
- neutron star,
- NGC,
- nova,
- nymph,
- nymphet,
- nymphlin,
- open cluster,
- oread,
- Pleiades,
- populations,
- pulsar,
- quasar,
- quasi-stellar radio source,
- radio star,
- red giant star,
- relative magnitude,
- Seven Sisters,
- sky atlas,
- spectrum-luminosity diagram,
- star,
- star catalog,
- star chart,
- star cloud,
- star cluster,
- stellar magnitude,
- supernova,
- tree nymph,
- variable star,
- vila,
- white dwarf star,
- willi,
- wood nymph