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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GALAXY , properly the MILKY WAY, from the See also:

Greek name o yaXaEias, .sc . KuKAos, fromyaXa, See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk, cf. the See also:

Lat. via lactea (see See also:

STAR

STAR) . The word is more generally employed in its figurative or transferred sense, to describe a gathering of brilliant or distinguished persons or See also:

OBJECTS

objects .

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