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# andromeda

«andromeda» in Mova's school dictionary: **the nearest large galaxy to our own galaxy, the Milky Way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Andromeda)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#m1)

2) Andromeda is also a group of stars (a constellation) in the night sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#m2)

3) In old Greek myths, Andromeda was a princess saved from a sea monster by the hero Perseus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science (space) the Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy far, far away, made of hundreds of billions of stars; on a very dark night it can be seen as a faint smudge without a telescope, and it is the farthest thing most people can see with their eyes alone. In stories and myths Andromeda is a princess.

### examples

- The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral of billions of stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x1)
- On a very dark night you can see Andromeda as a faint smudge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x2)
- Andromeda is much farther away than any star we can see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x3)
- In the myth, Perseus saved Andromeda from a sea monster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x4)
- We found the Andromeda constellation on our star map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x5)
- Light from Andromeda takes over two million years to reach us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x6)
- This was Andromeda, the king's daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/#x7)

### note

A name, so it always has a capital letter. Andromeda is a galaxy, not a star or a planet. Trap: the light we see left it a very long time ago, so we see it as it was, not as it is now.

### In the corpora

- [In autumn the Great Square of Pegasus rises in the east, and from its corner a line of stars leads to Andromeda.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «andromeda» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/andromeda/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.