Stargazer

Quick meaning: Stargazer is a noun meaning (now colloquial) Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).

Meaning

(now colloquial) Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).

More Meanings

1. (zoology) Any of family Uranoscopidae of bottom-dwelling fish.

Example Sentences

[…] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.

A stargazer is a frightening fish by any sretch of the imagination, but not until the day I first saw one in its own world did I understand its true nature.

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee.

Word Forms

• stargazers

Synonyms for stargazer

Depending on context, synonyms include lotus eater, astronomer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astronomer, lotus eater, astrophile, astronomian, moongazer, astrophotographer.

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