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Definition of Stargazer
1. Noun. Someone indifferent to the busy world. "In the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
2. Noun. A physicist who studies astronomy.
Category relationships: Astronomy, Uranology
Specialized synonyms: Astrophysicist, Cosmologist
Generic synonyms: Physicist
Specialized synonyms: 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
Derivative terms: Stargaze, Uranology
3. Noun. Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head.
Group relationships: Family Uranoscopidae, Uranoscopidae
Definition of Stargazer
1. Noun. One who stargazes. ¹
2. Noun. A perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stargazer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stargazer
Literary usage of Stargazer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ...by John Hankins Wallace, American Trotting Register Association by John Hankins Wallace, American Trotting Register Association (1887)
"John H., bg, dam by Morgan Hunter—1878—78 2:20 Cozette, bl m, dam by Stargazer—1876—66
2:19 BLACKBIRD, 401, son of Camden; dam by Post Boy. ..."
2. The Turf Register and Sportsman & Breeder's Stud-book: Containing the by William Pick, R. Johnson (1822)
"Even betting on Stargazer/ and after the first heat, 5 to 1 on her. At Lincoln.
• September 6. She won the King's Parse of ..."
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