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Definition: Stargazer |
StargazerNoun1. Someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence". 2. A physicist who studies astronomy. 3. Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: StargazerSynonyms: astronomer (n), lotus-eater (n), uranologist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stargazer |
| English words defined with "stargazer": Weather spy. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Eddie Stargazer (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stargazer with a Pegasus space launch vehicle. |
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| "Pink Stargazer Lily" by Jason Ho Commentary: "Thanks to Joseph Lancaster for clarifying the name of this flower. This image was taken in Singapore." | "Stargazer Lily" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Stargazer Lily close-up." |
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| "Stargazer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Stargazer" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stargazer": sand stargazer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stargazer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | europæisk stjernekigger (star-gazer). (various references) | |
Dutch | sterrenkijker (telescope), sterrekijker (star-gazer). (various references) | |
Finnish | taivaantähystäjä. (various references) | |
French | uranoscope de l'Atlantique (star-gazer), uranoscope (star-gazer), tapecon (star-gazer), rat (star-gazer), rascasse blanche (star-gazer). (various references) | |
German | Sterngucker (stargazers). (various references) | |
Greek | λύχνος, αστρολόγοσ (astrologer), ονειροπόλοσ (daydreamer, dreamer, musing, star gazer, visionary). (various references) | |
Italian | pesce prete (star-gazer), lucerna mediterranea (star-gazer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | argazerstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cabeçudo (big-headed, mule, pigheaded, stubborn). (various references) | |
Russian | мечтатель (daydreamer, day-dreamer, dreamer, fancier, illusionist, knight errant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvezdoznalac, koji čita zvezde. (various references) | |
Spanish | rata (rat), astrónomo (astronomer), astrólogo (astrologer, chaldean). (various references) | |
Swedish | stjärnkikare (telescope). (various references) | |
Turkish | idealist (idealist), hayalperest (day dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, escapist, fanciful, illusionist, imaginative, notional, quixotic, vaporous, visionary), hayalci (day dreamer, fanciful, imaginative, visionary, wool gathering, woolgathering), dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мрійник (castle builder, day dreamer, dreamer, fancier, idealist, illusionist, visionary), астролог (astrologer, babylonian, chaldean). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Uranoscopus scaber, Uranoscopus scaber (Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stargazer": stargazers. (additional references) | |
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"Stargazer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stargate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stargazer" (pronounced stÄ"rgā'zer) |
| 3 | -ā' z er | fundraiser, Trailblazer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-r-r-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: stargaze. | |
-2 letters: erratas, garrets, garters, gastrea, graters, grazers, teargas. | |
-3 letters: agates, arrest, errata, ersatz, garret, garter, gaster, gazars, gazers, grater, grates, grazer, grazes, greats, rarest, raster, raters, razers, reatas, retags, stager, starer, targes, tarres, terras. | |
-4 letters: agars, agate, agaze, agers, areas, arras, aster, gates, gazar, gazer, gazes, gears, getas, grate, graze, great, ragas, rages. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-r-r-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: stargazers. | |
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