MILKY WAY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Milky Way System mean? 

• MILKY WAY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun MILKY WAY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky

  Familiarity information: MILKY WAY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILKY WAY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Milky Way; Milky Way Galaxy; Milky Way System

Hypernyms ("Milky Way System" is a kind of...):

extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

Meronyms (parts of "Milky Way System"):

heliosphere (the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system)

Meronyms (members of "Milky Way System"):

Crux; Crux Australis; Southern Cross (a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus)