Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An astronomer.
- n. An astrologer.
- n. A daydreamer.
- n. Any of various bottom-dwelling marine percoid fishes of the families Uranoscopidae and Dactyloscopidae, having eyes on the top of the head.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who gazes; at the stars; especially, an astrologer, or, humorously, an astronomer.
- n. A book-name of fishes of the family Uranoscopidæ: so called from the vertical eyes. The name originally designated Uranoscopus europæus. Astroscopus guttatus is a common stargazer of the United States.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family
Uranoscopidæ . 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
- n. someone indifferent to the busy world
- n. a physicist who studies astronomy
Examples
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“In addition to crabs, watermen found croaker and oyster toadfish, as well as rarities, such as stargazer and cunner.”
“Poetic Licence cuffed 'stargazer' sandals; £68.76 at”
“The config shown above allows to authenticate the user 'stargazer' with the bluetooth mac from the config.”
“Building on its native Germanic word star, English has the verb to star; compounds like stardom, all-star, stargazer, five-star, starstruck, and superstar; and phrases such as rock star and pop star.”
“They have an old lady adviser which reminded me of the stargazer from Darker than Black.”
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“It didn't matter that his target was just a teenage amateur stargazer, who worked at a Ho Jo's.”
“This project has also been done as a lounge chair called “stargazer””
“Ship's compass and stargazer from one of London's boats on display at the House of Happy Walls Museum.”
“Instead, she brought me a bouquet of stargazer lilies because she was crazy about their scent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stargazer’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Stars
star, gold star, superstar, Star Wars, Star Trek, star chart, five-pointed star, six-pointed star, eight-pointed star, Star Jones, Starbuck, Starbucks and 47 more...
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MyList
peter out, fraying, jump on the bandw..., indignation, eclectic, hung up, salutary, hoary, warped, glaring, blue-collar, concomitant and 105 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2031 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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faint sausage stargazer
Interesting gene names
sonic hedgehog, lunatic fringe, methuselah, dreadlocks, tinman, inebriated, swiss cheese, stargazer, headcase, faint sausage, fear of intimacy, van gogh and 11 more...
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Words Typed with the Left Hand Only
devastate, stargazer, beverage, addressed, cataract, beggar, debased, vertebrate, aftertaste, exaggerate, stewardesses, aggregrate
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for stargazer.
bilby Bottom-lurker. Dec 28, 2012
chained_bear Also a type of sail... see usage note on moonsail. Feb 24, 2008