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Meaning of Milky Way | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located.
  2. A broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the dense portions of the Milky Way Galaxy from inside the galaxy.

Equivalents

العربية درب التبانة
Беларуская Млечны Шлях
Български Млечен път
Čeština Mléčná dráha
Dansk mælkevejen
Deutsch Milchstraße
Ελληνικά γαλαξίας
Esperanto Lakta Vojo
Suomi linnunrata
Français Voie lactée
ગુજરાતી આકાશગંગા
Magyar Tejút
Bahasa Indonesia Bima Sakti
Íslenska vetrarbraut
Italiano Via Lattea
Қазақ тілі Құс жолы
Latina Via Lactea
Latviešu Piena Ceļš
मराठी आकाशगंगा
Bahasa Melayu Bintang Temabur
Nederlands Melkweg
Polski Droga Mleczna
Română Calea Lactee
Русский Млечный Путь
ChiShona muzvcazi
Svenska Vintergatan
Türkçe Samanyolu
Українська Чумацький Шлях
Tiếng Việt Ngân Hà

Examples

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
From a cosmic perspective, even our host galaxy, the Milky Way, is not particularly special[…]”
“By combining the data from multiple telescopes, astronomers determined the star’s position and velocity in space, allowing them to predict that it will exit the Milky Way at some point.”
“[…] a random shower of amber lights—a spray of golden sparks that […] glinted softly upon the sea of dark foliage like the pallid stars of the milky-way.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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