Galaxy
/ˈɡaləksi/
The meaning and definition of Galaxy, with examples, synonyms, and a word game to make it stick.
Definition
noun
- The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
- Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
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Synonyms
G star city trichiliocosm
Origin
From Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας, from Ancient Greek γάλα.
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Source: Etymological Wordnet (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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