Meaning Of The Word Galaxy

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What's The Definition Of Galaxy?

galaxy
countable noun: A galaxy is an extremely large group of stars and planets that extends over many billions of light years.
proper noun: The Galaxy is the extremely large group of stars and planets to which the Earth and the Solar System belong.
singular noun: If you talk about a galaxy of people from a particular profession, you mean a group of them who are all famous or important.

galaxy in American English
Milky Way
noun: a large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space

galaxy in British English
noun
noun: any of a vast number of star systems held together by gravitational attraction in an asymmetric shape (an irregular galaxy) or, more usually, in a symmetrical shape (a regular galaxy), which is either a spiral or an ellipse

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