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Stars vs Galaxy - What's the difference?

stars | galaxy |

As nouns the difference between stars and galaxy

is that stars is plural of lang=en while galaxy is the Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

As a verb stars

is third-person singular of star.

As a proper noun Galaxy is

the Milky Way Galaxy, from when it was thought the Universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.

stars

English

Noun

(head)
  • Outer space.

    • Derived terms

    * shoot for the stars * stars in their eyes * stars snd stripes * stars and bars * written in the stars

    Verb

    (head)
  • (star)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    galaxy

    English

    Noun

    (galaxies)
  • * 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
    • So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
  • (galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.

    • Synonyms

    * (astronomy) G (abbreviation)

    Derived terms

    * active galaxy * dwarf galaxy * elliptical galaxy * extragalactic * galactic * galaxy cluster / cluster of galaxies * galaxy filament / filament of galaxies * galaxy nucleus * galaxy sheet / sheet of galaxies * galaxy wall / wall of galaxies * irregular galaxy * lenticular galaxy * spiral galaxy * whirlpool galaxy