LIGHT-YEAR Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

light-year

noun

ˈlīt-ˌyir

as in world

a huge physical or conceptual distance my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us

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Recent Examples of light-year The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024 The team calculated that these electrons must have come from a source within a few thousand light-years of our solar system. —

Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024 From Earth, the Sombrero Galaxy appears in the constellation Virgo, and measures about 50,000 light-years across, making it around as wide as our own Milky Way. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 That’s not a mistake – the lighter galaxy at the upper-left of the image is actually more than 200 million light-years closer to Earth than the rest of the group. —

Michael Irving, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for light-year