stargazer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

stargazer
    n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey
         Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
         [syn: {lotus-eater}, {stargazer}]
    2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: {astronomer},
       {uranologist}, {stargazer}]
    3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top
       of the head

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stargazer \Star"gaz`er\ (-g[=a]z`[~e]r), n.
   1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in
      derision or contempt, an astronomer.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine
      fishes belonging to {Uranoscopus}, {Astroscopus}, and
      allied genera, of the family {Uranoscopidae}. The common
      species of the Eastern United States are {Astroscopus
      anoplus}, and {Astroscopus guttatus}. So called from the
      position of the eyes, which look directly upward.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "stargazer":
      Chaldean, astroalchemist, astrogeologist, astrographer, astrologer,
      astrologian, astromancer, astronomer, astrophysicist, genethliac,
      horoscoper, horoscopist, radar astronomer, radio astronomer,
      solar physicist, uranographer, uranographist, uranologist,
      uranometrist