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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
Seven Sisters
the ˌSeven ˈSisters 7 [Seven Sisters] BrE NAmE noun plural
1. the Pleiades, a group of seven stars
2. a group of seven traditional women's (or formerly women's) universities in the eastern US with high academic standards and a high social status
Culture:
The universities that make up the Seven Sisters are: Barnard in New York City (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.
Compare ↑Ivy League
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