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# galactic

adjective (galactic)

«galactic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To do with a galaxy, a huge group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity, such as our Milky Way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#m1)
2. (informal) Enormous, huge in size or importance: a galactic mess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and space lessons «galactic» is used for things across or inside a galaxy: the galactic centre, a galactic year. In science fiction stories it appears in names like «Galactic Empire» or «galactic war». As slang it exaggerates size. Phrases: the galactic centre, intergalactic travel, galactic scale.

### Examples

- The Sun goes around the galactic centre once every 230 million years or so. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x1)
- Our science topic is about galactic shapes, like spirals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x2)
- In the film, a galactic war breaks out between two planets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x3)
- There is a black hole at the galactic centre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x4)
- My bedroom was a galactic mess after the sleepover. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x5)
- Intergalactic space is the gap between galaxies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x6)
- The game lets you build a galactic empire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/#x7)

### Note

From «galaxy» (y changes to «-actic»). «Intergalactic» = between galaxies; «galactic» = within or about a galaxy. The Milky Way is our galaxy; it is not the same as the Solar System, which is tiny by comparison.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «galactic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galactic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«galactic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/galactic.html) on Mova free.