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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 star·gaz·er /-ˌgezɚ/
 看星星的人,占星師,天文學家

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Star·gaz·er n.
 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]
      2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: astronomer, uranologist]
      3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened
         top of the head