galaxywide

See also: galaxy-wide

English

Alternative forms

• galaxy-wide

Etymology

From galaxy +‎ -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".

Adjective

galaxywide (not comparable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• pangalactic, transgalactic

References

• 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 (2001–2025), “galaxy-wide adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.