Meaning of Seven Sisters | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
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2. A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
3. A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
4. The Pleiades.
5. A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
6. A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
7. A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
8. An unincorporated community in Duval County, Texas, United States.

Examples

“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—”

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