galaxy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
astronomy
design
fashion
lifestyle
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Inflected forms:
form: galaxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Galaxy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galaxies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: galaxying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: galaxied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: galaxied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Galaxy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
Grecian imagination ascribed to the galaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: [a] galaxy of science fiction stars.
gloss: Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.
pos: noun
examples: Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
She hurriedly said that she found an^([sic]) faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.
gloss: To furnish with galaxies.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly ^([sic]) grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […]
In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
To be dwarfed in a galaxied sky, / doming, arcing, and revolving over / The little space I briefly occupy.
gloss: To gather together into a luminous whole.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Let all their Vertues then be Galaxied into this one Indiſtinct Luſtre, they vvere Faithful Servants of Chriſt, and Sufferers for their being ſo.
The brilliancies on one page of Lalla Roohk ^([sic]) would have sufficed to establish that very reputation which has been in a great measure self-dimned by the galaxied lustre of the entire book.
How dazzling must their brightness be when they are galaxied in a single bosom!
Synonyms: G
star city
trichiliocosm
galaxy
island universe
Related words: galactic
galacto-
Derived words: antigalaxy
cluster of galaxies
Enceladus Galaxy
filament of galaxies
galaxy-brain
galaxy brain
galaxy-brained
galaxy cluster
galaxy filament
galaxyful
galaxy gas
galaxy group
galaxyless
galaxylike
galaxy nucleus
galaxy sheet
galaxy wall
galaxy-wide
galaxywide
galcon
gastrophysics
group of galaxies
hypergalaxy
metagalaxy
Needle Galaxy
N galaxy
protogalaxy
Sausage Galaxy
Sausage Galaxy Population
sheet of galaxies
supergalaxy
wall of galaxies
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