"starwatcher" meaning in English

See starwatcher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: starwatchers [plural]
Etymology: From star + watcher. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|star|watcher}} star + watcher Head templates: {{en-noun}} starwatcher (plural starwatchers)
  1. One who watches stars; stargazer.
    Sense id: en-starwatcher-en-noun-9BYe3ScX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "star",
        "3": "watcher"
      },
      "expansion": "star + watcher",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From star + watcher.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starwatchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "starwatcher (plural starwatchers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Susan Lynn Reynolds, Strandia, page 174:",
          "text": "When the starwatcher finally awoke, they gave him breakfast and chav, and Sand hovered nearby as he ate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Hollis Dorion Stabler, Victoria Smith, No One Ever Asked Me, page x:",
          "text": "Being a starwatcher myself, and coming from a long line of Indian soldiers, I should have known our friendship was destined.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Gene Brown, Seven Candlesticks to Kingdom Come:",
          "text": "It was not an extremely bright star, perhaps only of the fourth or fifth magnitude, but it was very noticeable to a starwatcher like Nathan. To see the birth of a new star, Nathan surely knew, was a rare privilege.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Aria Noble, Lady of Dawn:",
          "text": "Ember wasn't naturally much of a starwatcher.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who watches stars; stargazer."
      ],
      "id": "en-starwatcher-en-noun-9BYe3ScX",
      "links": [
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "stargazer",
          "stargazer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "starwatcher"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "star",
        "3": "watcher"
      },
      "expansion": "star + watcher",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From star + watcher.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starwatchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "starwatcher (plural starwatchers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Susan Lynn Reynolds, Strandia, page 174:",
          "text": "When the starwatcher finally awoke, they gave him breakfast and chav, and Sand hovered nearby as he ate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Hollis Dorion Stabler, Victoria Smith, No One Ever Asked Me, page x:",
          "text": "Being a starwatcher myself, and coming from a long line of Indian soldiers, I should have known our friendship was destined.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Gene Brown, Seven Candlesticks to Kingdom Come:",
          "text": "It was not an extremely bright star, perhaps only of the fourth or fifth magnitude, but it was very noticeable to a starwatcher like Nathan. To see the birth of a new star, Nathan surely knew, was a rare privilege.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Aria Noble, Lady of Dawn:",
          "text": "Ember wasn't naturally much of a starwatcher.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who watches stars; stargazer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "stargazer",
          "stargazer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "starwatcher"
}

Download raw JSONL data for starwatcher meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (9f93753 and c1a3a36). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.