stargazer
nounUS /ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/
Etymology From star + gazer.
1
Colloquial 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 come vpon thee.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 47:13:
- […] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.1906, Theophilus G. Pinches, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria:
- 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.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 187:
- Derived terms
- Atlantic stargazer, electric stargazer