galaxy

/ˈɡæl.ək.si/

noungal · ax · y

Think: **GAL** (a girl) + **AX** (an axe) + **Y** (“why?”) — “GAL-AX-Y” helps you remember the **-axy** ending.

Yes, it's galaxy. Don’t swap the middle letters: it’s **gal + ax + y** (…**lax**…), not **gala** or **galla**.

Definitions

  1. nouna very large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity (such as the Milky Way)
  2. noun(informal) a very large number of people or things

Examples

  • “Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy.”
  • “With a telescope, we could see a faint galaxy far beyond our own.”
  • “The museum’s collection was a galaxy of inventions from different centuries.”

Synonyms

star systemMilky Waystar clustercosmosuniverse

Translations

ES galaxiaPT galáxiaFR galaxie

Common misspellings

galaxigalexygalexigalaxiegalaxeygalxaygalasy

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