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# How to pronounce "pleiad" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/plɛɪæd/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **plei·ad**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: Any one of the Pleiades.
- **NOUN**: A member of the Pleiades cluster.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "pleiad" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "children. It has a connection to the Seven Sisters Constellation, to the Pleiades, linking us with the night sky above. To the rest of nations in Australia and connects us to the rest of the world."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9pu4fGOp2Y&t=197s)

### Example 2
> "The Pleiades in Greek literature were the nurses of Dionysus, who is the God of the Grape."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlA2vByhLc8&t=661s)

### Example 3
> "the pleiades and the hyades being connected and nairu and iruna is the man"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 27:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiISsDkcPc&t=1636s)

### Example 4
> "got Pleiades, how we got the evening star, how we got the fire finch, how the crow got black, but more importantly, why I eat my food cooked."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpXSS0TCps&t=625s)

### Example 5
> "is called Pleiades. This one took about two months using about 14,000 cores on Pleiades."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKZBuf1EZI&t=440s)

### Example 6
> "There's Pleiades. There's Scorpius."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0ikBr2CsE&t=1874s)

### Example 7
> "the brightest, so we see them more easily. Through a telescope redder stars are apparent. Long exposures of the Pleiades reveal a surprise: The stars are embedded in a dust cloud, which glows blue from reflected and scattered starlight. When I was younger it was thought that this was the leftover stuff from which the stars formed. But now we know it’s a coincidence; by sheer happenstance the cluster is colliding with an unrelated cloud of dust -- it’s"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an4rgJ3O21A&t=291s)

### Example 8
> "I'm referring here to the Pleiades Project."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaUt-kZylDA&t=521s)

### Example 9
> "Will you not go and do as we have done?” The Great Spirit is so pleased at this that he takes the girls into the heavens without death where they become a symbol to their people: the Seven Sisters, or Pleiades. Thanks Thought Bubble. So, clearly, this story doesn’t map perfectly onto Campbell's monomyth structure."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XevCvCLdKCU&t=683s)

### Example 10
> "like driving a car through a dust cloud thrown up by a truck that went past you earlier. By another coincidence, the Pleiades are located in the sky next to the Hyades, the only other cluster with stars resolvable by the naked eye. The Hyades are much closer, and appear bigger; in fact they form the distinctive V-shape of the horns of Taurus, the Bull!"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an4rgJ3O21A&t=313s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [plaid](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/plaid)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "pleiad" correctly?
"pleiad" is pronounced `/plɛɪæd/`. Syllable breakdown: **plei·ad**.

### What does "pleiad" mean in context?
Any one of the Pleiades.

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