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noun
One who studies astronomy, the stars or the physical universe; a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a physicist who studies astronomy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: uranologist, stargazer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: physicist
Narrower terms: astrophysicist, cosmologist, Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, Anaximander, Aristarchus of Samos, Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch, Brahe, Tycho Brahe, Celsius, Anders Celsius, Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik, Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Eratosthenes, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Hale, George Ellery Hale, Hall, Asaph Hall, Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley, Herschel, William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Hipparchus, Huggins, Sir William Huggins, Hypatia, Kepler, Johannes Kepler, Johan Kepler, Kuiper, Gerard Kuiper, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace, Lovell, Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Lowell, Percival Lowell, Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus, Newcomb, Simon Newcomb, Omar Khayyam, Oort, Jan Hendrix Oort, Peirce, Benjamin Peirce, Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Rittenhouse, David Rittenhouse, Russell, Henry Russell, Henry Norris Russell, Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Shapley, Harlow Shapley, Sitter, Willem de Sitter, Thales, Thales of Miletus, Tombaugh, Clyde Tombaugh, Clyde William Tombaugh
History
From Middle English astronomer, equivalent to astronomy + -er. Displaced native Old English tungolcræftiga.
Across languages
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