Associations to the word «Alcyone»

Wiktionary

ALCYONE, proper noun. (Greek mythology) One of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
ALCYONE, proper noun. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
ALCYONE, proper noun. (star) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope