English-Thai Dictionary

galaxy

N กลุ่ม ดาว กาแล็กซี  cosmic system star cluster klum-dao-ka-laek-se

 

galaxy

N ทางช้างเผือก  tang-chang-pueak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GALAXY

n.[Gr. milk; fair. ] 1. The milky way; that long, white, luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a girdle. This luminous appearance is found by the telescope to be occasioned by a multitude of stars, so small as not to be distinguished by the naked eye.
2. An assemblage of splendid persons or things.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GALAXY

Gal "ax *y, n.; pl. Galaxies. Etym: [F. galaxie, L. galaxias, fr. Gr. lac. CF. Lacteal. ]

 

1. (Astron.)

 

Defn: The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

 

2. A splendid assemblage of persons or things.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

galaxy

gal ax y |ˈgaləksē ˈɡæləksi | ▶noun ( pl. galaxies ) a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. • ( the Galaxy ) the galaxy of which the solar system is a part; the Milky Way. • a large group of impressive people or things: the four musicians have played with a galaxy of stars. The Galaxy in which the earth is located is a disk-shaped spiral galaxy with approximately 100,000 million stars. The sun is located about two thirds of the way out from the center. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally referring to the Milky Way ): via Old French from medieval Latin galaxia, from Greek galaxias (kuklos )‘milky (vault ),’ from gala, galakt- ‘milk. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

galaxy

gal ¦axy |ˈgaləksi | ▶noun ( pl. galaxies ) a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. • ( the Galaxy ) the galaxy of which the solar system is a part; the Milky Way. • a large group of impressive people or things: the four musicians have played with a galaxy of stars. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally referring to the Milky Way ): via Old French from medieval Latin galaxia, from Greek galaxias (kuklos ) ‘milky (vault )’, from gala, galakt- ‘milk ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

galaxy

galaxy noun the search for life in other galaxies: star system, solar system, constellation; stars, heavens.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

galaxy

galaxy noun 1 he focused his telescope on the galaxy: star system, solar system, constellation, cluster, nebula; spiral galaxy, Seyfert galaxy; stars, heavens. 2 a galaxy of the rock world's biggest stars: brilliant gathering, dazzling assemblage, illustrious group; host, multitude, array, mass, bevy, horde, company, army, flock, group.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

galaxy

gal ax y /ɡǽləksi /〖語源は 「ミルクのような (milky )」; ミルクを流したように見えることから 〗名詞 複 -ies 1 C (銀河系外の )星雲 ▸ clusters of galaxies 小宇宙星団 2 〖the G- 〗銀河系 (the Milky Way ); 銀河, 天の川 .3 〖a ～ of A 〗たくさんのA 〈物 〉; きらびやかなA 〈同業の人々など 〉.