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/ˈɡæl.ək.si/ · noun
(now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth..
So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
Grecian imagination ascribed to the galaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.]
[a] galaxy of science fiction stars.
Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
She hurriedly said that she found an^([sic]) faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.
[…] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly ^([sic]) grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […]
In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
Use galaxy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Galaxy means (now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth..
Common synonyms include G, star city, trichiliocosm, galaxy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
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