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See also: galaxy-wide
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
galaxy + -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".
Adjective[edit]
galaxywide (not comparable)
- Throughout a galaxy.
- 1949 January, Henry Kuttner, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50:
- I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.
- 1959 June, Larry M. Harris, “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy[1], volume 17, number 5, page 136:
- 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.
- 1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203:
- Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:galaxywide.
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References[edit]
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “galaxywide”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75.
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “galaxy-wide adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.