- astronomer as a noun:
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astronomer
noun
1 astronomer
A physicist who studies astronomy.
synonyms: stargazer, uranologist.
Roget 318: world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos†; terraqueous globe†, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm†; music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin†, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions†; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.]. sun, orb of day, Apollo†, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite†, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite†. constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades. colures†, equator, ecliptic, orbit. [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology†; cosmology, cosmography†, cosmogony; eidouranion†, orrery; geodesy etc. (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer†; astronomer; observatory; planetarium. ... show more
is a specific kind of: physicist.
is a broader term that covers: astrophysicist | cosmologist.
instances of which are: Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, al-Haytham, Alhacen, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham | Anaximander | Aristarchus of Samos | Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch | Brahe, Tycho Brahe | Anders Celsius, Celsius | Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik, Nicolaus Copernicus | Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington | Eratosthenes | Galileo, Galileo Galilei | George Ellery Hale, Hale | Asaph Hall, Hall | Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley, Halley | Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, William Herschel | Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Sir John Herschel | Hipparchus | Huggins, Sir William Huggins | Hypatia | Johan Kepler, Johannes Kepler, Kepler | Gerard Kuiper, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Kuiper | Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley | Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Sir Bernard Lovell | Lowell, Percival Lowell | Maria Mitchell, Mitchell | Johann Muller, Muller, Regiomontanus | Newcomb, Simon Newcomb | Omar Khayyam | Jan Hendrix Oort, Oort | Benjamin Peirce, Peirce | Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy | David Rittenhouse, Rittenhouse | Henry Norris Russell, Henry Russell, Russell | Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Schiaparelli | Harlow Shapley, Shapley | Sitter, Willem de Sitter | Thales, Thales of Miletus | Clyde Tombaugh, Clyde William Tombaugh, Tombaugh ... show more.
domain category: astronomy, uranology.
derivation: stargaze.
Dutch: astronoom
Polish: astronom
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