stargazer

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Etymology

From star +‎ gazer.

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stargazer (plural stargazers)

  1. (now colloquial) Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).
    • 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 satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.
  2. (zoology) A perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 187:
      A stargazer is a frightening fish by any srtetch of the imagination, but not until the day I first saw one in its own world did I understand its true nature.

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