Stars vs Galaxy - What's the difference?
stars | galaxy |
Outer space.
(star)
* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
(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.
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
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Noun
(head)Derived terms
* shoot for the stars * stars in their eyes * stars snd stripes * stars and bars * written in the starsVerb
(head)Anagrams
* ----galaxy
English
Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].