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galaxies

noun

plural of galaxy
as in worlds
a huge physical or conceptual distance they're a galaxy apart when it comes to politics

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Recent Examples of galaxies The team of researchers studied galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at their hearts. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Others are top-of-the-line machines, pointed at distant galaxies millions of light-years away. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026 Its galaxies of galleries are filled almost entirely with their own collections. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 Astronomers first argued that little red dots were distant galaxies on the cosmic horizon, mainly because of their brightness. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
  1. worlds
  2. light-years
Noun
  • Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and architect Stefano Baisi have spent nearly a decade creating worlds together.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The blockbuster trilogy of papers in the late 1990s showed that, mathematically, these two theoretical worlds (the AdS interior and the CFT surface) are the same.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of worlds
Noun
  • Others are top-of-the-line machines, pointed at distant galaxies millions of light-years away.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • In fact, the exoplanet (or, planet outside of our solar system) was located 450 light-years away from Earth, still resting in the swirling gas and dust where it was born.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of light-years

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“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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