Galaxy

Noun

 * 1)  The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
 * 2) * 1633, John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
 * So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
 * 1)  Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.

Synonyms

 * G

Related terms

 * galactic
 * extragalactic

Derived terms

 * spiral galaxy
 * elliptical galaxy
 * lenticular galaxy
 * irregular galaxy
 * dwarf galaxy
 * active galaxy


 * galaxy nucleus
 * galaxy cluster / cluster of galaxies
 * galaxy supercluster / supercluster of galaxies
 * filament of galaxies / galaxy filament
 * wall of galaxies / galaxy wall
 * sheet of galaxies / galaxy sheet

Adjectives for Galaxy
splendid; cooperative; successive (pi).

Thesaurus
Milky Way, Via Lactea, army, barred spiral, barred spiral galaxy, big name, celebrity, cluster, cohue, constellation, cosmic noise, crowd, crush, cynosure, deluge, figure, flock, flood, folk hero, galactic circle, galactic cluster, galactic coordinates, galactic latitude, galactic longitude, galactic nebula, galactic noise, galactic pole, great man, heap, hero, heroine, horde, host, idol, immortal, important person, island universe, jam, legion, lion, luminaries, luminary, man of mark, mass, master spirit, mob, multitude, name, notability, notable, panoply, person of note, personage, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, press, public figure, rabble, rout, ruck, social lion, somebody, spate, spheroidal galaxy, spiral, spiral galaxy, spiral nebula, star, supergalaxy, superstar, throng, worthy

Etymology
From galaxie:, from  galaxias:, from  γαλαξίας: from γάλα:.

Translations

 * Arabic: مجرة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Catalan: galàxia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 恆星系, 恒星系,  群星,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: galaxia
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: 은하 (eunha), 은하계 (eunhagye)
 * Latin: galaxias
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: galaktika
 * Maltese: galassja
 * Manx: ard-chruinnaght
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, galaxii
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Slighe Chlann Uisnich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: галаксија
 * Roman: galaksija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: galaxid, galaxüt
 * Welsh: galaeth


 * : galactia, orbis lacteus
 * : galaxie
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, Հարդագողի ճանապարհ
 * Catalan: Via Làctia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 银河,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: galaksio, laktovojo
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ο γαλαξίας (o galaxías)
 * Hebrew: שביל החלב


 * Hungarian: Tejút, Tejútrendszer
 * Indonesian: Bimasakti, Bima Sakti
 * Interlingua: Via Lactee
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 天の川 (あまのがわ, amanogawa),
 * Korean: 은하수 (eunhasu)
 * Persian: (rahe shiri)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Sgrìob Chlann Uis, Slighe Chlann Uisnich
 * Tupinambá: Tapi'irapé (lit. "tapir's way")
 * Welsh: Y Llwybr Llaethog