stargazer

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/

Definition of stargazer

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (colloquial)Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).
    “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.”
    “[…] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.”
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noun

  1. (colloquial)Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).
    “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.”
    “[…] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.”
  2. Any of family Uranoscopidae of bottom-dwelling fish.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From star + gazer.

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