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Milky Way

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Etymology

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FromMiddle EnglishMilky Wey, acalque ofLatinVia Lactea(literally“milky road”), acalque ofAncient Greekγαλαξίας(galaxías), referring to its appearance as a pale band of stars across the sky. Compare alsoOld EnglishĪringes weġ(“Milky Way”),Old NorseMjólkrhringr(“Milky Way”, literally“milk-ring, milk-circle”). The reference to the galaxy is an extension of the second sense.

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Proper noun

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theMilkyWay

  2. (astronomy) TheMilky Way Galaxy, thegalaxy in whichEarth is located.[from mid 19th c.][1]
    Synonyms:Milky Way Galaxy,Galaxy,Local Galaxy
    Meronyms:Galactic Center,Sagittarius A*
    • 1854 August 9,Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Solitude”, inWalden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC,page144:
      This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in theMilky Way?
    • 2021, William Sheehan, Jim Bell, chapter 13, inDiscovering Mars, page294:
      From a cosmic perspective, even our host galaxy, theMilky Way, is not particularly special[…]
  3. (astronomy) A broadband ofdiffuse whitelight,visible in thenightsky; ourview of the dense portions of the Milky Way Galaxy from inside the galaxy.[from late 14th c.]
    Synonyms:Silvery River,Great Sky River
    • 1869, Mark Twain, chapter XXXII, inThe Innocents Abroad, page348:
      […] a random shower of amber lights—a spray of golden sparks that[…] glinted softly upon the sea of dark foliage like the pallid stars of themilky-way.

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Translations

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galaxy
light in night sky
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References

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  1. ^“Milky Way,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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