'Stargazer' definitions:
Definition of 'stargazer'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" [syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]
noun
A physicist who studies astronomy [syn: astronomer, uranologist, stargazer]
noun
Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
Definition of 'Stargazer'
From: GCIDE
- Stargazer \Star"gaz`er\ (-g[=a]z`[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are {Astroscopus anoplus}, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stargazer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- astroalchemist,
- astrogeologist,
- astrographer,
- astrologer,
- astrologian,
- astromancer,
- astronomer,
- astrophysicist,
- Chaldean,
- genethliac,
- horoscoper,
- horoscopist,
- radar astronomer,
- radio astronomer,
- solar physicist,
- uranographer,
- uranographist,
- uranologist,
- uranometrist