gaze
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgasjan, “to terrify”). [1]
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gaze (third-person singular simple present gazes, present participle gazing, simple past and past participle gazed)
- (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.
- They gazed at the stars for hours.
- In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 1:11:
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
SynonymsEdit
TroponymsEdit
- (to stare intently): ogle
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to stare intently or earnestly
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to stare at
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NounEdit
gaze (plural gazes)
- A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 16:
- 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.
- (archaic) The object gazed on.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 11:
- Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (psychoanalysis) 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.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, p.35:
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
fixed look
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object gazed on
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ReferencesEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”) (pronounced in the dialects with /ɡ/), less likely from غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.
NounEdit
gaze f (plural gazes)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
gaze
- first-person singular present indicative of gazer
- third-person singular present indicative of gazer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- second-person singular imperative of gazer
Further readingEdit
- “gaze” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
gaze f (plural gazes)
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gaze n
- indefinite plural of gaz