Synonyms of light-years

light-years

noun

plural of light-year

as in worlds

a huge physical or conceptual distance

my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us

Synonyms & Similar Words

• worlds
• galaxies
• ways
• long hauls
• country miles
• infinities

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inches
• striking distances
• hairs
• hairbreadths
• stone's throws

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of light-years

Its host star is a dim bulb of a red dwarf about 49 light-years from our sun. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this twinkling image of NGC 6723, or the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster located 27,000 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Millions of light-years away, but because of that black thing Brit had come riding up the hill at dusk. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

The enormous columns of gas and dust sit inside the Eagle Nebula, about 6,500 light-years away, and stretch roughly five light-years. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

The celestial phenomenon, located in a galaxy roughly 115 million light-years from Earth, is the remnant of a dense ball of stars being slowly pulled apart by the gravity of its host galaxy. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

But, as with any franchise, some of these iterations are light-years better than others. — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026