Usually means: Galaxy containing our solar system.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Milky Way:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. milky way: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Milky Way, the Milky Way, the milky way: Merriam-Webster
  3. Milky Way: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Milky Way: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Milky Way, the Milky Way: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Milky Way: Vocabulary.com
  7. Milky Way, milky-way: Wordnik
  8. the Milky Way, the Milky way: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Milky-Way, Milky Way: Wiktionary
  10. Milky Way: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Milky Way: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Milky Way, the Milky Way: Dictionary.com
  13. milky way: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Milky Way (album), Milky Way (candy bar), Milky Way (chocolate bar), Milky Way (confectionery), Milky Way (disambiguation), Milky Way (film), Milky Way (galaxy), Milky Way (mythology), Milky Way (song), Milky Way (spread), Milky Way, Milky way, The Milky Way: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Milky way: Rhymezone
  16. milky-way: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Milky Way: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. milky way: FreeDictionary.org
  19. milky way: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Milky Way: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Milky Way: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Milky Way (astronomy), Milky Way (band of light), Milky Way (galaxy), Milky Way, The Milky Way: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Milky Way: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. milky way: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Milky Way: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. Milky Way: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See milky_ways as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Milky Way)

noun:  (astronomy) The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located.
noun:  (astronomy) 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.

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