I remember the night when I first saw the Milky Way.
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Milky
//ˈmɪlki//
Synonyms for "milky" (83 found)
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14 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 35 languages.
Aromanian
1 entries- lãptos adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Asturian
1 entries- llechosu adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Bulgarian
1 entries- млечен adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Catalan
1 entries- lletós adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乳白色 adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Czech
1 entries- mléčný adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Dutch
1 entries- melkachtig adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Esperanto
1 entries- lakta adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Finnish
1 entries- maitoinen adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
French
1 entries- laiteux adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Galician
1 entries- leitoso adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
German
1 entries- milchig adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Greek
1 entries- γαλακτώδης adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Hindi
1 entries- दुधिया adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Hungarian
1 entries- tejszerű adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Ido
2 entries- laktatra adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- laktea adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Irish
1 entries- lachtach adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Italian
2 entries- latteo adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- lattiginoso adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Kazakh
1 entries- сүтті adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сүттүү adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Latin
3 entries- galacticus adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- lactaneus adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- lacteus adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Lithuanian
3 entries- pieningas adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- pieninis adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- pieniškas adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Māori
1 entries- kauehu adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Northern Altai
1 entries- сӱттиг adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- melkeaktig adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Polish
1 entries- mleczny adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Portuguese
1 entries- leitoso adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Romanian
1 entries- lăptos adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Russian
2 entries- мле́чный adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- моло́чный adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Southern Altai
1 entries- сӱттӱ adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Spanish
4 entries- lactario adj (containing a whitish liquid, juicy)
- lechal adj (containing a whitish liquid, juicy)
- lechoso adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
- lechoso adj (containing a whitish liquid, juicy)
Swedish
1 entries- mjölkig adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Turkish
1 entries- sütlü adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Ukrainian
1 entries- молочний adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Welsh
1 entries- llaethog adj (resembling milk in color or consistency)
Sample sentences
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The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.
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What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.
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The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each similar to our sun.
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