stargazer
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[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/
Noun
[edit]stargazer (plural stargazers)
- (now colloquial) Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one). [from 16th c.]
- 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.
- (zoology) A perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae. [from 17th c.]
- 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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[edit]one who stargazes
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a perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae
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Further reading
[edit]- stargazer (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia