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Webster 1913 Edition

Gaze

Gaze

(gāz)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gazed
(gāzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gazing
.]
[OE.
gasen
, akin to dial. Sw.
gasa
, cf. Goth. us-
gaisjan
to terrify, us-
geisnan
to be terrified. Cf.
Aghast
,
Ghastly
,
Ghost
,
Hesitate
.]
To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Syn. – To gape; stare; look.
– To
Gaze
,
Gape
,
Stare
. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.

Gaze

,
Verb.
T.
To view with attention; to gaze on .
[R.]
And
gazed
a while the ample sky.
Milton.

Gaze

,
Noun.
1.
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
With secret
gaze

Or open admiration him behold.
Milton.
2.
The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and
gaze
.
Milton.
At gaze
(a)
(Her.)
With the face turned directly to the front; – said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon.
(b)
In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; – a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,
Than that earth should stand at
gaze
like Joshua’s moon in Ajalon!
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gaze

GAZE

,
Verb.
I.
[Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]
To fix the eyes and look steadily and earnestly; to look with eagerness or curiosity; as in admiration, astonishment, or in study.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? Acts.1.

GAZE

,
Verb.
T.
To view with fixed attention.
And gazed awhile the ample sky.
[It is little used as a transitive verb.]

GAZE

,
Noun.
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder or admiration; a continued look of attention.
With secret gaze,
Or open admiration, him behold--
1.
The object gazed on; that which causes one to gaze.
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.

Definition 2024

Gaze

Gaze

See also: gaze, gazé, gāze, gāzē, gáže, and -gaze

German

Noun

Gaze f ‎(genitive Gaze, plural Gazen)

  1. gauze

gaze

gaze

See also: Gaze, gazé, gāze, gāzē, gáže, and -gaze

English

Verb

gaze ‎(third-person singular simple present gazes, present participle gazing, simple past and past participle gazed)

  1. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
      Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
    In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
    • Bible, Acts i. 11
      Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
  2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
    • 1667: Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, Paradise Lost (book VIII)

Synonyms

Troponyms

  • (to stare intently): ogle

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

gaze ‎(plural gazes)

  1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
      Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  2. (archaic) The object gazed on.
    • John Milton (1608-1674)
      made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
  3. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
    • 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, p.35:
      She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.

Derived terms

  • foregaze

Translations

References

  1. ↑ Gaze in Webster's Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Either from Arabic قَزّ ‎(qazz, “silk”), from Persian کز ‎(kaz, “silk”), from Middle Persian kaz ‎(“silk”); or from غَزَّة ‎(ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.

Noun

gaze f ‎(plural gazes)

  1. gauze

Etymology 2

Verb

gaze

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gazer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of gazer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
  5. second-person singular imperative of gazer

Portuguese

Noun

gaze f (plural gazes)

  1. gauze (thin fabric with open weave)
  2. gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)

Etymology

From French gaze

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːzə

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