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English

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The spiral galaxy NGC 1672
Arollerblader (right) ingalaxy leggings (sense 4).

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishgalaxye,galaxie, fromOld Frenchgalaxie, fromLatingalaxias, fromAncient Greekγαλαξίας(galaxías,“Milky Way”), shortening ofγαλαξίας κύκλος(galaxías kúklos,“milky circle”), fromγάλα(gála,“milk”).

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galaxy (pluralgalaxies)

  1. (now rare) TheMilky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.[from 14th c.]
    • 1633,John Donne,Sapho to Philænis:
      So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of theGalaxie [...].
    • 1833,Thomas Keightley,Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 5:
      Grecian imagination ascribed to thegalaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.]
  3. (astronomy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars,galactic dust,black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherentsystems, of which there are billions in the knownuniverse.[from 19th c.]
  4. (figuratively) Anassemblage of things or people seen asluminous orbrilliant.
    • 1936 December,Thrilling Wonder Stories, page127, column 1:
      [a]galaxy of science fiction stars.
  5. (fashion, design) Anyprint orpattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting ofblending,semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.
    • 2016, Reyna Young,Hanover Falls‎[1], page42:
      Her walls and ceiling were covered withgalaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
    • 2017, Rebekah L. Purdy,Incriminating Dating‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2018, Isabel Scheck,Survival‎[3], page15:
      She hurriedly said that she found an[sic] fadedgalaxy blanket. She lovedgalaxy patterned things.

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Translations

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the Milky Way—seeMilky Way
collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
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Verb

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galaxy (third-person singular simple presentgalaxies,present participlegalaxying,simple past and past participlegalaxied)

  1. Tofurnish with galaxies.
    • 1836, anonymous author, “The Victim Bride: A Tale of Monadnock”, inThe Philadelphia Visiter, volume 1, number14, page53:
      […] 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 thegalaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires;[…]
    • 1838,John Edmund Reade,Italy: a poem, in six parts, page138:
      In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / Allgalaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
    • 2018, Adrian G. R. Scott, “A Canticle to Creatureliness”, inA Night Sea Journey:
      To be dwarfed in agalaxied sky, / doming, arcing, and revolving over / The little space I briefly occupy.
  2. (archaic) Togathertogether into aluminouswhole.

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