OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42375

stargazer

/ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
miraestrellas
Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).
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 com…
[…] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.
uranoscópido
Any of family Uranoscopidae of bottom-dwelling fish.
A stargazer is a frightening fish by any sretch 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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