stargazer
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/
Noun
stargazer (plural stargazers)
- One who stargazes.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 47:13:
- 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.
- 1906, Theophilus G. Pinches, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria:
- […] the four dogs of Merodach, wherein people are inclined to see 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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- (zoology) A perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae.
Derived terms
- Atlantic stargazer (Uranoscopus scaber)
- electric stargazer
Translations
one who stargazes
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a perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae
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Further reading
stargazer (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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