stargazer

English[edit]

From star +‎ gazer.

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.

one who stargazes

a perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae