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as·tron·o·mer

(ə-strŏn′ə-mər)

One who specializes in astronomy.

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astronomer

(əˈstrɒnəmə)

1. (Astronomy) a scientist who studies astronomy

2. (Professions) a scientist who studies astronomy

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

as•tron•o•mer

(əˈstrɒn ə mər)

n.

an expert in astronomy; a scientific observer of the celestial bodies.

[1325–75]

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Noun

astronomer - a physicist who studies astronomy

uranologist, stargazer

astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole

astrophysicist - an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies

cosmologist - an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe

physicist - a scientist trained in physics

Translations

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astronomi

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astronomo

astronoom sterrenkundige

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天文学家

astronomer

[əsˈtrɒnəməʳ] N → astrónomo/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

astronomer

[əˈstrɒnəmə^r] n → astronome mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

astronomer

n → Astronom(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

astronomer

[əsˈtrɒnəməʳ] n → astronomo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

astronomy

(əˈstronəmi) noun

the study of the stars and their movements. He is studying astronomy.

aˈstronomer noun

astronomic(al) (ӕstrəˈnomik(l)) adjective

1. (of numbers or amounts) very large. The cost of the new building was astronomical.

2. of astronomy. astronomical observations.

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I think I can still hear this learned and devout man--for his soul was filled with devotion to the dread Being that could hold a universe in subjection to His will--dwelling with delight on all the discoveries among the heavenly bodies, that the recent improvements in science and mechanics have enabled the astronomers to make.

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At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called FLANDONA GAGNOLE, or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.

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Thus was formed the Nebulae , of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000.

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"And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken into account all the complicated and varied motions of the earth?

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It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine of the Schoolmen bare great sway, that the Schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics and epicycles, and such engines of orbs, to save the phenomena; though they knew there were no such things; and in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of subtle and intricate axioms, and theorems, to save the practice of the church.

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That, he said, is a work infinitely beyond our present astronomers.

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"Do all astronomers admit the existence of this satellite?" asked Nicholl.

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Their coming could have been predicted with the same certitude that astronomers to-day predict the outcome of the movements of stars.

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AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars.

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"Generous man!" cried the Astronomer, glowing with warm and elevated sentiments, "pay me, then, what you will."

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"I didn't know you were an astronomer, Miss Leeson."

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Going to the edge of the pit, I found it occupied by a group of about half a dozen men--Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learned was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen wielding spades and pickaxes.