gazer
gazer noun: one who gazes.
Noun
gazer (plural gazers)
- One who gazes.
- I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 38
Examples of gazer in a sentence
- Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 86–7:
- A few years before I had been one of the gazers at the Zoolus, and the Aztecs in London.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 241:
- Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.1914, Wassily Kandinsky, chapter V, in M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, transl., The Art of Spiritual Harmony, page 49:
Forms of gazer
| plural | gazers |
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Origin of gazer
From gaze + -er.
Words formed from gazer
Phrases with gazer
Questions about gazer
- What does gazer mean?
- Gazer means one who gazes.
- How do you use gazer in a sentence?
- Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
- What part of speech is gazer?
- Gazer is a noun.
- What is the plural of gazer?
- The plural of gazer is gazers.
Words near gazer in the dictionary
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