GALAXY

Pronunciation (US):

• GALAXY (noun)
  The noun GALAXY has 3 senses:

1. a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
2. tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
3. (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust

  Familiarity information: GALAXY used as a noun is uncommon.

• GALAXY (noun)

Meaning:

A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("galaxy" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meaning:

Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beetleweed; coltsfoot; galax; Galax urceolata; galaxy; wandflower

Hypernyms ("galaxy" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("galaxy" is a member of...):

genus Galax (evergreen herbs of southeastern United States)

Meaning:

(astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

extragalactic nebula; galaxy

Context example:

'extragalactic nebula' is a former name for 'galaxy'

Hypernyms ("galaxy" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "galaxy"):

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

Meronyms (substance of "galaxy"):

cosmic dust (clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "galaxy"):

spiral galaxy; spiral nebula (a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center)

Great Attractor (a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies)

Milky Way; Milky Way Galaxy; Milky Way System (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)

Instance hyponyms:

Magellanic Cloud (either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole)

Holonyms ("galaxy" is a member of...):

cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)