Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Informal An astronomer.
- noun An astrologer.
- noun A daydreamer.
- noun Any of various bottom-dwelling marine fishes of the families Uranoscopidae and Dactyloscopidae, having eyes on the top of the head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gazes; at the stars; especially, an astrologer, or, humorously, an astronomer.
- noun A book-name of fishes of the family Uranoscopidæ: so called from the vertical eyes. The name originally designated Uranoscopus europæus. Astroscopus guttatus is a common stargazer of the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family
Uranoscopidæ . The common species of the Eastern United States areAstroscopus anoplus , andAstroscopus guttatus . So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
stargazes . - noun A
perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
- noun someone indifferent to the busy world
- noun a physicist who studies astronomy
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StarBlog 2008
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Building on its native Germanic word star, English has the verb to star; compounds like stardom, all-star, stargazer, five-star, starstruck, and superstar; and phrases such as rock star and pop star.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Building on its native Germanic word star, English has the verb to star; compounds like stardom, all-star, stargazer, five-star, starstruck, and superstar; and phrases such as rock star and pop star.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It didn't matter that his target was just a teenage amateur stargazer, who worked at a Ho Jo's.
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chained_bear commented on the word stargazer
Also a type of sail... see usage note on moonsail.
February 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word stargazer
Bottom-lurker.
December 29, 2012