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stargazer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stargazer has 3 senses
- stargazer(n = noun.person) lotus-eater - someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" is a kind of daydreamer, woolgatherer
- stargazer(n = noun.person) astronomer, uranologist - a physicist who studies astronomy; Array has particulars: astrophysicist, cosmologist, al-hasan ibn al-haytham, al-haytham, alhacen, alhazen, ibn al-haytham, anaximander, aristarchus of samos, bessel, friedrich wilhelm bessel, bowditch, nathaniel bowditch, brahe, tycho brahe, anders celsius, celsius, copernicus, mikolaj kopernik, nicolaus copernicus, eddington, sir arthur stanley eddington, eratosthenes, galileo, galileo galilei, george ellery hale, hale, asaph hall, hall, edmond halley, edmund halley, halley, herschel, sir frederick william herschel, sir william herschel, william herschel, herschel, john herschel, sir john frederick william herschel, sir john herschel, hipparchus, huggins, sir william huggins, hypatia, johan kepler, johannes kepler, kepler, gerard kuiper, gerard peter kuiper, kuiper, langley, samuel pierpoint langley, laplace, marquis de laplace, pierre simon de laplace, lovell, sir alfred charles bernard lovell, sir bernard lovell, lowell, percival lowell, maria mitchell, mitchell, johann muller, muller, regiomontanus, newcomb, simon newcomb, omar khayyam, jan hendrix oort, oort, benjamin peirce, peirce, claudius ptolemaeus, ptolemy, david rittenhouse, rittenhouse, henry norris russell, henry russell, russell, giovanni virginio schiaparelli, schiaparelli, harlow shapley, shapley, sitter, willem de sitter, thales, thales of miletus, clyde tombaugh, clyde william tombaugh, tombaugh
- stargazer(n = noun.animal) Array - heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
Derived form verb stargaze2
is a kind of physicist
Derived form verb stargaze1
is a member of family uranoscopidae, uranoscopidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
stargazer, n.
- One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer. [1913 Webster]
- Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to
Uranoscopus ,Astroscopus , and allied genera, of the familyUranoscopidæ . The common species of the Eastern United States areAstroscopus anoplus , andAstroscopus guttatus . So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
stargazer
Chaldean, astroalchemist, astrogeologist, astrographer, astrologer, astrologian, astromancer, astronomer, astrophysicist, genethliac, horoscoper, horoscopist, radar astronomer, radio astronomer, solar physicist, uranographer, uranographist, uranologist, uranometrist
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