the Seven Sisters
noun /ðə ˌsevn ˈsɪstəz/
/ðə ˌsevn ˈsɪstərz/
[plural]- the Pleiades, a group of seven stars
昴星团（七颗亮星）；七姊妹星团 - 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
七姐妹学院（美国东部学业标准高、有声望的七所传统女子学院） 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.