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Meanings of Alcyone in English

Portuguese
alcíone

(Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher.

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        Usage of Alcyone in English
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        The story of Ceyx and Alcyone is beautifully told in Ovid, Met.
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17,...
        2
        You know that the sun and all its planets are revolving around the star Alcyone.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        3
        The sun is the centre of a solar globe of ether, revolving in prana around Alcyone.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        4
        And she does not mean the upper globes in the stellar system of Alcyone and its companions.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        5
        One of the medium sized worlds that revolve around Alcyone sustains the shortest lived human beings of our universe.
        Life in a Thousand Worlds
        6
        Already Alcyone begins to fade.
        The Best British Short Stories of 1922
        7
        The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope, Celæno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.
        New Tabernacle Sermons
        8
        Necessarily, all our prana is of this kinetic kind, and our earth a minor detail of it in the Alcyone globe.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        9
        Orpheus tried to bring back Eurydice to please himself, not her, and Alcyone's suicide was of no possible use to Ceyx.
        Primitive Love and Love-Stories
        10
        There are other solar globes beside ours circling around Alcyone, and we have been considering only our own solar globe of ether.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        11
        In the great manasic globe this earth of ours is a minute village of Helios (sun) county, in the state of Alcyone.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
        12
        Besides, the One Life is in teacher and taught, as Alcyone reminds us, and to that Life, which is Divine, all things are possible.
        Education as Service
        13
        What indeed is the whole of this our tiny planet compared with Alcyone-1,000times larger than our central sun!
        Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
        14
        ALCYONE, or HALCYONE, in Greek mythology, daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        15
        Silent the season, sad alcyone
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17,...
        16
        Alcyone is the centre of a stellar globe of prana revolving in manasa around the central and hidden sun of the great manasic globe.
        Ancient and Modern Physics
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        Translations for Alcyone
        Portuguese
        alcíone
        Alcyone through the time