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Definition of the Seven Sisters noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

the Seven Sisters

noun
 
/ðə ˌsevn ˈsɪstəz/
 
/ðə ˌsevn ˈsɪstərz/
[plural]
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  1. the Pleiades, a group of seven stars
  2. a group of seven traditional women’s (or in the past women’s) universities in the eastern US with high academic standards and a high social status
    CultureThe universities that made up the Seven Sisters were: Barnard in New York (associated with Columbia University), Bryn Mawr in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Radcliffe in Cambridge, Massachusetts (associated with Harvard University, forming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard in 1999), Smith in Northampton, Massachusetts, Vassar (which now also has male students) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Wellesley in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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