[plee-uh
d, plahy-uhd] 
| 1. | any of the Pleiades. |
| 2. | French, Plé⋅iade [pley-yad] . a group of seven French poets of the latter half of the 16th century. |
| 3. | (usually lowercase) any group of eminent or brilliant persons or things, esp. when seven in number. |