All 3 Uses of
galaxy
in
It Happened to Nancy
- I mean REALLY feel it, like it was crunchy fall leaves or soft cloth or something …. maybe solid but squishy or gauzy and wispy and changing, ever changing, like a planet or galaxy weaving through space.†
p. 2..9
- I just want to sink away and become part of the black nothingness between the planets and the galaxies.†
p. 55..3 *
- Apparently during first class, the word leaked out about me, because by second class everyone was looking at me like I was from another galaxy, or like the stick-figure, big-headed Mars person in cartoons.†
p. 153..5
Definition:
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(galaxy) a collection of star systems held together by gravity -- for example, our sun is a star whose system includes Earth and the other planets. That star system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy