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MILKY WAY GALAXY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Milky Way Galaxy mean?
• MILKY WAY GALAXY (noun)
The noun MILKY WAY GALAXY has 1 sense:
1. the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
Familiarity information: MILKY WAY GALAXY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Milky Way; Milky Way Galaxy; Milky Way System
Hypernyms ("Milky Way Galaxy" is a kind of...):
extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)
Meronyms (parts of "Milky Way Galaxy"):
heliosphere (the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system)
Meronyms (members of "Milky Way Galaxy"):
Crux; Crux Australis; Southern Cross (a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus)
Context examples
Our Milky Way Galaxy is littered with these stellar relics, called planetary nebulae.
(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)
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