Meanings
present singular third person stargazes · participle present stargazing · participle past stargazed · past stargazed
- To look at the stars at night.
It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.
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"That's right," declared Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale."
1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale - figurativelyTo gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively.
Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.
1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land
Synonyms & antonyms
verbhave a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 觀星 /观星
- 觀星 /观星 (guānxīng)to look at the stars at night
Italian guardare le stelle
- guardare le stelleto look at the stars at night
Russian смотре́ть на звёзды
- смотре́ть на звёзды (smotrétʹ na zvjózdy)to look at the stars at night
Vietnamese xem sao
- xem saoto look at the stars at night
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stargaze. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stargaze
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