Stargazer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stargazer
       n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer
            tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
            [syn: {lotus-eater}]
       2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: {astronomer}, {uranologist}]
       3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened
          top of the head

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "stargazer":
     Chaldean, astroalchemist, astrogeologist, astrographer, astrologer,
     astrologian, astromancer, astronomer, astrophysicist, genethliac,
     horoscoper, horoscopist, radar astronomer, radio astronomer,
     solar physicist, uranographer, uranographist, uranologist,
     uranometrist