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Milkyway

Milkyway is the misspelling of Milky Way.

Meaning of Milky Way

Proper noun

the Milky Way

  1. The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located.
    • Holonyms: Local Group < Virgo Supercluster < Laniakea < Universe
  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.
    • […] 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.1869, Mark Twain, chapter XXXII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 348

Questions about Milkyway

What is Milkyway the misspelling of?
Milkyway is the misspelling of Milky Way.

Words near Milkyway in the dictionary

  1. Milky Way Galaxy
  2. milky-dashel
  3. Milky-Way
  4. Milky-Way Galaxy
  5. milky-white
  6. Milkyway
  7. mill
  8. mill about
  9. mill around
  10. mill bar
  11. mill bars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Milkyway (page history and authors); Milky Way (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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