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English
Etymology
star + gaze
Pronunciation
Verb
stargaze (third-person singular simple present stargazes, present participle stargazing, simple past and past participle stargazed)
- To look at the stars at night.
- It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.
1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale:"That's right," declared Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale."
- (figuratively) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively.
1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land:Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.
Translations
to look at the stars at night
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