To furnish with galaxies. / (archaic) To gather together into a luminous whole.

(now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

plural of galaxy

(astronomy, dated) the Milky Way Galaxy, from before it was realized that the Milky Way was not the only "galaxy"

(astronomy) A galaxy that, like spiral galaxies, has a flat disk, but unlike them has lost most of its interstellar matter and therefore has no spirals; considered a transitional form between spirals and elliptical galaxies.

(astronomy) A galaxy which is has no spirals and is not elliptical.

(astronomy) A galaxy having a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the centre containing older ones

(astronomy) A galaxy that is undergoing a high rate of star formation

(astronomy) Any galaxy, considerably smaller than the Milky Way, that has only several billions of stars.

(astronomy) A galaxy where a significant fraction of the energy output is not emitted by the normal components of a galaxy.