galaxywide

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adjective

Throughout a galaxy.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectivegalaxywide (not comparable)

alternative galaxy-wide

  1. not comparableThroughout a galaxy.

    I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.

    1949 January, Henry Kuttner, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50
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    Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.

    1959 June, Larry M. Harris, “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy, volume 17, number 5, page 136

    Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.

    1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203

    Synonyms: pangalactic, transgalactic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveThroughout a galaxy.

Origin

From galaxy + -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".

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Chicago

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