galaxyn.

Brit.

/ˈɡaləksi/, U.S.

/ˈɡæləksi/

Forms:

α. Middle English–1700s galaxias, 1500s–1600s gallaxia, 1500s– galaxia.

β. Middle English 1600s galaxye, Middle English 1600s–1700s galaxie, 1600s–1700s gallaxie, late Middle English galoxie, late Middle English galoxye, 1600s gallaxye, 1600s–1700s gallaxy, 1600s– galaxy.

N.E.D. (1898) also records forms Middle English gallaxie, Middle English gallaxye.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin galaxias, galaxia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin galaxias Milky Way (5th cent.; also galaxia (from 12th cent. in British sources; already in classical Latin (as galaxiās ) denoting a kind of stone) < Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας (short for γαλαξίας κύκλος milky circle) < ancient Greek γαλακτ- , γάλα milk (see galactic adj.) + -ίας, suffix forming nouns and adjectives. Compare Middle French, French galaxie (1557), Catalan galàxia (15th cent.), Spanish galaxia (1527–50 or earlier), Portuguese galáxia (1523), Italian galassia (1282), and also German Galaxis Milky Way (17th cent.; also Galaxie, formerly ‘Milky Way’, now usually ‘star system’), Norwegian galakse, Swedish galax, Danish galakse (all 20th cent.).

1. Astronomy.

a. Often with the and capital initial. Originally: a faintly luminous, irregular band or track encircling the night sky and known to consist of stars (which are distinguishable only by means of the telescope); the Milky Way. In later use chiefly: the disc-shaped star system that contains the solar system and the visible stars and whose plane of maximum star density gives rise to the observed Milky Way; = Milky Way galaxy n. at Milky Way n. Compounds.The Milky Way system (a galaxy in sense 1b) is a disc-shaped spiral approx. 100,000 light years across, containing at least 200 billion stars. The sun is located about two thirds of the way outwards from the centre.In our galaxy with admixture of sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way

wayeOE

Watling Streetc1384

galaxya1398

milky circlea1398

Milky Wayc1450

milk way1555

milk-white way1555

white circle1563

milken waya1586

milken race1596

milk circle1601

Via Lactea1615

lacteous circle1646

Milky Way1854

Walsingham Wayc1878

α.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. viii. 459 Galaxias is a cercle of heuen more faire and briȝt þanne oþir cercles.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 43 b The Astrologers be yet ignorant what Galaxias is, that is to saie, the Milkie circle.

1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xxxi, in Annot. Poems (1870) 67 Galaxia..is a white way or milky Circle in the heauens.

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. C3 Let Iuno..With her quicke feete the galaxia weare.

1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 333 Pointing to the Galaxias or milky circle.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 420 That combination of Weaker Stars, which they call the Galaxia.

1756 Bailey's New Universal Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) II The Via lactea, this circle is call'd the Galaxia or milky-way.

1870 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 26 114 We think of the son of this same Jupiter, and turning our eyes to Heaven contemplate the glorious galaxia, the Via Lactea, and commiserate Juno smarting under the lusty efforts of baby Hercules.

1916 Mod. Philol. 14 104 In Norfolk the Galaxia, or Milky Way, was known as the ‘Walsingham Way’.

β. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 936 Se yonder loo the Galoxie Whiche men clepeth the melky weye For hit ys white.1477 Chaucer's Parl. Fowls (Caxton) (1871) l. 56 Affrican sayd..rightful folk shal goo after they dye To heuene and shewde hym the galaxye [a1500 St. John's Oxf. galoxie .i. watlynstrete].1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iv. 26 They bathe their beauteous lims, as in the transparent and limpid streames of Paradise, or the Galaxie or milky way itself.1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xiv, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 4 Thick as the Galaxy with starr's is sown.1675 Philos. Trans. 1674 (Royal Soc.) 9 233 The Assertions of some of the Eminent Modern Astronomers, viz...the Galaxie's being an Aggregate of numberless small Stars.1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. Prelim. Disc. p. xlvi The Galaxy being well known to be the fertile place of New Stars.1784 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 443 It is very probable, that the great stratum, called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed... We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, which seems to encompass the whole heavens, as it certainly must do if the sun is within the same.1805 W. Wordsworth Vaudracour & Julia 97 Meanwhile the galaxy displayed Her fires.1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) xci. 234 The Galaxy, or Milky-way, passes through the heavens like an irregular zone.1891 Science 14 Aug. 87/1 The regions outside our galaxy cannot..be absolutely barren.1924 G. E. Hale Depths of Universe ii. 37 The most impressive of celestial objects is the luminous girdle of the Galaxy.1945 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Apr. 57/2 In grasshopper jumps of increasing magnitude, the trade ship was spanning the Galaxy in its return to the Foundation.1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe xi. 157 If the galaxy is really full of dark matter in the form of WIMPs, then during its lifetime the sun would have absorbed a fair number of them.2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey iv. 49 The primary cosmic rays seem to come from all directions, so their source, either inside or outside our Galaxy, remains a puzzle.

b. A feature, system, etc., resembling the Milky Way; (in later use) spec. any of the numerous systems, often of millions or billions of stars, held together by gravitation and containing other matter such as gas and dust, which exist throughout space as distinct bodies. Cf. Milky Way n. 1b.lenticular, radio, spiral galaxy, etc.: see the first element.The existence of galaxies as separate systems analogous to and outside of the Milky Way system was proposed in the 19th cent. but not proved until the first meaningful determinations of the distances of galaxies by E. P. Hubble in the 1920s. Before Hubble's work many astronomers considered galaxies to be star clusters or ‘nebulae’ within the Milky Way system. Cf. nebula n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun]

galaxy1698

universe1738

star system1833

island-universe1867

nebula1924

supergiant1974

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia ii. 11 Steering now by the Crosiers, a South Constellation, taking its name from the Similitude of that Pastoral Staff; as also supplied by the Magellanian Clouds, in number Two, (averred to be such by those that use this way continually) fixed as the North Star; but to me they seem no other than a Galaxia, caused by the Reflection of the Stars.

1809 J. Barlow Columbiad ix. 281 Lights o'er the land, from cities lost in shade, New constellations, new galaxies spread.

1824 London Mag. Mar. 242 According to Herschel, the most remote of the galaxies which the telescope discovers lie at such a distance from us—that their light, which reaches us at this day, must have set out on its journey two millions of years ago.

1829 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 488 The black one [sc. Magellanic cloud] is only a spot in a galaxy, in which there are very few visible stars.

1853 W. Whewell Plural. Worlds 90 When we have thus to reckon as many galaxies as there are resolvable nebulae.

1888 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. xxi. 503 The belief that these star-clusters are stellar universes,—‘galaxies’, like the group of stars to which the writers supposed the sun to belong.

1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe p. v The whole material universe of stars and galaxies of stars is dispersing.

1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xviii. 511 Other galaxies outside our own are scattered through space as far as the largest telescopes can explore.

1989 Cauldron (Cleveland State Univ.) 1 Aug. 3/5 The explosion of a supernova in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 214 The terminal singularity toward which all the billions of galaxies may raggedly collapse.

2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 152 By the early 1950s it had been found that most of the so-called radio stars were actually a new kind of galaxy.

2. In various extended uses. Now chiefly: a brilliant assembly, esp. of beautiful or talented people (cf. star n.¹ 4).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > large

galaxy1590

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group > specifically of people > distinguished

galaxy1590

constellationa1631

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 49* The milke-white Galaxia of her brow.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 51 Upon this Primrose hill, Where..Their form and their infinitie Make a terrestriall Galaxie.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 45 Others [sc. stars] small, and scarce visible in the Galaxy of the Church.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II clxxxiii, in Poems (1878) III. 182 My verse had trod The Galaxie of fame, to Crowne his merit.

1704 R. Steele Lying Lover Prol. Where such bright Gallaxies of Beauty sit.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 278 The brightness of a single genius seemed lost in a galaxy of contiguous glory.

1802 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 376 The Hon. Mount-Stuart Elphinstone, Mr. Wilks, and Major Munro..were also constellations in that galaxy.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 640 The heiress of this family..became the central star of so bright a galaxy.

1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xix. 228 His countenance was a galaxy of joy.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 164 A waiter was present solemnly lighting a galaxy of wax-candles.

1913 Aeronaut. Jrnl. 17 227 Results only attained a century later by the labours of a galaxy of great mathematical physicists.

1954 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 391 Why do I get a little galaxy of spots on my forehead, all seeing how near they can get to each other to draw the glance of curious observers.

1982 D. Piper Image of Poet i. 21 Milton himself, first and perhaps greatest in the galaxy of Cambridge poets.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. (Arts & Leisure section) 28/1 Traditional West Indian folk songs along with a few originals performed—in authentic patois and kreyol—by..a galaxy of Caribbean stars.

Compounds

In sense 1.

C1. attributive.

ΚΠ

1884 Cent. Mag. 27 916 If the Kantian galaxy-theory were true.

?a1965 G. Roddenberry Orig. Outl. ‘Star Trek’ in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) i. i. 23 Close enough to our times for our continuing cast to be people like us, but far enough into the future for galaxy travel to be fully established.

1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 47/1 One cannot be sure that real galaxy pairs orbit each other in the parabolas or elongated ellipses demanded by our models.

2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey x. 198 Computer simulations of galaxy formation in a ‘hot dark matter’ Universe.

C2.

galaxy cluster n. †(a) = galactic cluster n. (b) at galactic adj. Compounds (obsolete); (b) a cluster of galaxies; cf. galactic cluster n. (c) at galactic adj. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1859 T. W. Webb Celestial Objects iii. 215 Bright Galaxy cluster, resembling three arms of a cross.

1894 F. M. Gibson Amateur Telescopist's Handbk. 99 A small galaxy cluster 8ˈ in diameter.

1961 W. D. Stahlman in Isis 52 608/1 The ‘basic unit’, which so few years ago was the galaxy.., is now the ‘galaxy cluster’ (the Milky Way is one of seventeen galaxies in our ‘local’ group).

2006 Smithsonian July 72/2 Random energy fluctuations..eventually became the large-scale structures of galaxies, galaxy clusters and superclusters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	galaxy
释义	galaxyn. Brit. /ˈɡaləksi/, U.S. /ˈɡæləksi/ Forms: α. Middle English–1700s galaxias, 1500s–1600s gallaxia, 1500s– galaxia. β. Middle English 1600s galaxye, Middle English 1600s–1700s galaxie, 1600s–1700s gallaxie, late Middle English galoxie, late Middle English galoxye, 1600s gallaxye, 1600s–1700s gallaxy, 1600s– galaxy. N.E.D. (1898) also records forms Middle English gallaxie, Middle English gallaxye. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin galaxias, galaxia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin galaxias Milky Way (5th cent.; also galaxia (from 12th cent. in British sources; already in classical Latin (as galaxiās ) denoting a kind of stone) < Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας (short for γαλαξίας κύκλος milky circle) < ancient Greek γαλακτ- , γάλα milk (see galactic adj.) + -ίας, suffix forming nouns and adjectives. Compare Middle French, French galaxie (1557), Catalan galàxia (15th cent.), Spanish galaxia (1527–50 or earlier), Portuguese galáxia (1523), Italian galassia (1282), and also German Galaxis Milky Way (17th cent.; also Galaxie, formerly ‘Milky Way’, now usually ‘star system’), Norwegian galakse, Swedish galax, Danish galakse (all 20th cent.). 1. Astronomy. a. Often with the and capital initial. Originally: a faintly luminous, irregular band or track encircling the night sky and known to consist of stars (which are distinguishable only by means of the telescope); the Milky Way. In later use chiefly: the disc-shaped star system that contains the solar system and the visible stars and whose plane of maximum star density gives rise to the observed Milky Way; = Milky Way galaxy n. at Milky Way n. Compounds.The Milky Way system (a galaxy in sense 1b) is a disc-shaped spiral approx. 100,000 light years across, containing at least 200 billion stars. The sun is located about two thirds of the way outwards from the centre.In our galaxy with admixture of sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way wayeOE Watling Streetc1384 galaxya1398 milky circlea1398 Milky Wayc1450 milk way1555 milk-white way1555 white circle1563 milken waya1586 milken race1596 milk circle1601 Via Lactea1615 lacteous circle1646 Milky Way1854 Walsingham Wayc1878 α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. viii. 459 Galaxias is a cercle of heuen more faire and briȝt þanne oþir cercles. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 43 b The Astrologers be yet ignorant what Galaxias is, that is to saie, the Milkie circle. 1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xxxi, in Annot. Poems (1870) 67 Galaxia..is a white way or milky Circle in the heauens. 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. C3 Let Iuno..With her quicke feete the galaxia weare. 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 333 Pointing to the Galaxias or milky circle. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 420 That combination of Weaker Stars, which they call the Galaxia. 1756 Bailey's New Universal Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) II The Via lactea, this circle is call'd the Galaxia or milky-way. 1870 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 26 114 We think of the son of this same Jupiter, and turning our eyes to Heaven contemplate the glorious galaxia, the Via Lactea, and commiserate Juno smarting under the lusty efforts of baby Hercules. 1916 Mod. Philol. 14 104 In Norfolk the Galaxia, or Milky Way, was known as the ‘Walsingham Way’. β. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 936 Se yonder loo the Galoxie Whiche men clepeth the melky weye For hit ys white.1477 Chaucer's Parl. Fowls (Caxton) (1871) l. 56 Affrican sayd..rightful folk shal goo after they dye To heuene and shewde hym the galaxye [a1500 St. John's Oxf. galoxie .i. watlynstrete].1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iv. 26 They bathe their beauteous lims, as in the transparent and limpid streames of Paradise, or the Galaxie or milky way itself.1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xiv, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 4 Thick as the Galaxy with starr's is sown.1675 Philos. Trans. 1674 (Royal Soc.) 9 233 The Assertions of some of the Eminent Modern Astronomers, viz...the Galaxie's being an Aggregate of numberless small Stars.1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. Prelim. Disc. p. xlvi The Galaxy being well known to be the fertile place of New Stars.1784 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 443 It is very probable, that the great stratum, called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed... We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, which seems to encompass the whole heavens, as it certainly must do if the sun is within the same.1805 W. Wordsworth Vaudracour & Julia 97 Meanwhile the galaxy displayed Her fires.1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) xci. 234 The Galaxy, or Milky-way, passes through the heavens like an irregular zone.1891 Science 14 Aug. 87/1 The regions outside our galaxy cannot..be absolutely barren.1924 G. E. Hale Depths of Universe ii. 37 The most impressive of celestial objects is the luminous girdle of the Galaxy.1945 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Apr. 57/2 In grasshopper jumps of increasing magnitude, the trade ship was spanning the Galaxy in its return to the Foundation.1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe xi. 157 If the galaxy is really full of dark matter in the form of WIMPs, then during its lifetime the sun would have absorbed a fair number of them.2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey iv. 49 The primary cosmic rays seem to come from all directions, so their source, either inside or outside our Galaxy, remains a puzzle. b. A feature, system, etc., resembling the Milky Way; (in later use) spec. any of the numerous systems, often of millions or billions of stars, held together by gravitation and containing other matter such as gas and dust, which exist throughout space as distinct bodies. Cf. Milky Way n. 1b.lenticular, radio, spiral galaxy, etc.: see the first element.The existence of galaxies as separate systems analogous to and outside of the Milky Way system was proposed in the 19th cent. but not proved until the first meaningful determinations of the distances of galaxies by E. P. Hubble in the 1920s. Before Hubble's work many astronomers considered galaxies to be star clusters or ‘nebulae’ within the Milky Way system. Cf. nebula n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] galaxy1698 universe1738 star system1833 island-universe1867 nebula1924 supergiant1974 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia ii. 11 Steering now by the Crosiers, a South Constellation, taking its name from the Similitude of that Pastoral Staff; as also supplied by the Magellanian Clouds, in number Two, (averred to be such by those that use this way continually) fixed as the North Star; but to me they seem no other than a Galaxia, caused by the Reflection of the Stars. 1809 J. Barlow Columbiad ix. 281 Lights o'er the land, from cities lost in shade, New constellations, new galaxies spread. 1824 London Mag. Mar. 242 According to Herschel, the most remote of the galaxies which the telescope discovers lie at such a distance from us—that their light, which reaches us at this day, must have set out on its journey two millions of years ago. 1829 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 488 The black one [sc. Magellanic cloud] is only a spot in a galaxy, in which there are very few visible stars. 1853 W. Whewell Plural. Worlds 90 When we have thus to reckon as many galaxies as there are resolvable nebulae. 1888 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. xxi. 503 The belief that these star-clusters are stellar universes,—‘galaxies’, like the group of stars to which the writers supposed the sun to belong. 1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe p. v The whole material universe of stars and galaxies of stars is dispersing. 1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xviii. 511 Other galaxies outside our own are scattered through space as far as the largest telescopes can explore. 1989 Cauldron (Cleveland State Univ.) 1 Aug. 3/5 The explosion of a supernova in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. 1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 214 The terminal singularity toward which all the billions of galaxies may raggedly collapse. 2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 152 By the early 1950s it had been found that most of the so-called radio stars were actually a new kind of galaxy. 2. In various extended uses. Now chiefly: a brilliant assembly, esp. of beautiful or talented people (cf. star n.¹ 4). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > large galaxy1590 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group > specifically of people > distinguished galaxy1590 constellationa1631 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 49* The milke-white Galaxia of her brow. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 51 Upon this Primrose hill, Where..Their form and their infinitie Make a terrestriall Galaxie. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 45 Others [sc. stars] small, and scarce visible in the Galaxy of the Church. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II clxxxiii, in Poems (1878) III. 182 My verse had trod The Galaxie of fame, to Crowne his merit. 1704 R. Steele Lying Lover Prol. Where such bright Gallaxies of Beauty sit. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 278 The brightness of a single genius seemed lost in a galaxy of contiguous glory. 1802 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 376 The Hon. Mount-Stuart Elphinstone, Mr. Wilks, and Major Munro..were also constellations in that galaxy. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 640 The heiress of this family..became the central star of so bright a galaxy. 1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xix. 228 His countenance was a galaxy of joy. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 164 A waiter was present solemnly lighting a galaxy of wax-candles. 1913 Aeronaut. Jrnl. 17 227 Results only attained a century later by the labours of a galaxy of great mathematical physicists. 1954 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 391 Why do I get a little galaxy of spots on my forehead, all seeing how near they can get to each other to draw the glance of curious observers. 1982 D. Piper Image of Poet i. 21 Milton himself, first and perhaps greatest in the galaxy of Cambridge poets. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. (Arts & Leisure section) 28/1 Traditional West Indian folk songs along with a few originals performed—in authentic patois and kreyol—by..a galaxy of Caribbean stars. Compounds In sense 1. C1. attributive. ΚΠ 1884 Cent. Mag. 27 916 If the Kantian galaxy-theory were true. ?a1965 G. Roddenberry Orig. Outl. ‘Star Trek’ in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) i. i. 23 Close enough to our times for our continuing cast to be people like us, but far enough into the future for galaxy travel to be fully established. 1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 47/1 One cannot be sure that real galaxy pairs orbit each other in the parabolas or elongated ellipses demanded by our models. 2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey x. 198 Computer simulations of galaxy formation in a ‘hot dark matter’ Universe. C2. galaxy cluster n. †(a) = galactic cluster n. (b) at galactic adj. Compounds (obsolete); (b) a cluster of galaxies; cf. galactic cluster n. (c) at galactic adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1859 T. W. Webb Celestial Objects iii. 215 Bright Galaxy cluster, resembling three arms of a cross. 1894 F. M. Gibson Amateur Telescopist's Handbk. 99 A small galaxy cluster 8ˈ in diameter. 1961 W. D. Stahlman in Isis 52 608/1 The ‘basic unit’, which so few years ago was the galaxy.., is now the ‘galaxy cluster’ (the Milky Way is one of seventeen galaxies in our ‘local’ group). 2006 Smithsonian July 72/2 Random energy fluctuations..eventually became the large-scale structures of galaxies, galaxy clusters and superclusters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). galaxyv. Brit. /ˈɡaləksi/, U.S. /ˈɡæləksi/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle galaxied; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: galaxy n. Etymology: < galaxy n. rare. transitive. To gather together into a brilliant assembly. Chiefly as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > cluster cluster1398 clamberc1400 knot1611 constellate1643 galaxy1654 clump1824 satellize1887 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 299 Is all their Glory Galaxied (as I may tearm it) into such a one confused Lustre, or mention? 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iv. i. 213/1 Let all their Vertues then be Galaxied into this one Indistinct Lustre. 1857 M. A. Denison Gracie Amber xxxvii. 276 He was now in the midst of a circle, widely differing in the conventional usages of polite society, the varied tastes and talents of its members, and the throngs of beautiful and brilliant women galaxied around it, from the circumscribed society in which he had hitherto moved. 1908 R. Farrer In Old Ceylon x. 166 In full view of all the choked lilies and lotuses of the lake stretching away, galaxied on dull green under the angry orange of the sunset. 1995 J. Goodwin et al. Hermetic Brotherhood Luxor 137 The sublimest and loftiest heights of Astral systems, fretted and galaxied in starry blossoms throughout the blue of Heaven's infinitude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398v.1654
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galaxyn.

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galaxyv.