GALAXY


Meaning of GALAXY in English

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also Galaxy

( galaxies)

1.

A galaxy is an extremely large group of stars and planets that extends over many billions of light years.

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy.

N-COUNT

2.

The Galaxy is the extremely large group of stars and planets to which the Earth and the Solar System belong.

The Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars.

N-PROPER : the N

3.

If you talk about a galaxy of people from a particular profession, you mean a group of them who are all famous or important.

He is one of a small galaxy of Dutch stars on German television.

= array

N-SING : N of n

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