GAZE

gaze, regard

(noun) a long fixed look; “he fixed his paternal gaze on me”

gaze, stare

(verb) look at with fixed eyes; “The students stared at the teacher with amazement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

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

(intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.

(transitive, poetic) To stare at.

Synonyms

• gape, stare, look

Troponyms

• (to stare intently): ogle

Noun

gaze (plural gazes)

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

(archaic) The object gazed on.

(psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

Source: Wiktionary

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Gaze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.] Etym: [OE. gasen, akin to dial. Sw. gasa, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan to terrify, us- geisnan to be terrified. Cf. Aghast, Ghastly, Ghost, Hesitate.]

Definition: To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.

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, v. t.

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

Gaze, n.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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