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Etymology

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From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”). [1]

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
    They gazed at the stars for hours.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:11:
      Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 64:
      She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.
    • 1998, Michelangelo Antonioni, Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenerios, and Ideas, page xv:
      In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]
  2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
    • 1970, David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World:
      I searched for form and land
      For years and years I roamed
      I gazed a gazeless stare.

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Troponyms

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  • (to stare intently): ogle

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Noun

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gaze (plural gazes)

  1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
    Synonym: regard
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  3. (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, page 35:
      She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
  4. (media, usually in compounds) The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.
    • 1993, Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex":
      hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient
    • 2005, Eva Zetterberg Pettersson, The Old World Journey: National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973:
      The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze.
  5. (collective) A group of raccoons.
    • 2021, Angela Misri, Trip of the Dead‎[1], DCB:
      my small gaze of raccoons lived in a large maple tree that we shared with four elderly chipmunks and seven squirrels from three different generations of the same family
    • 2020 October 6, Cormick Evans, “Gaze of Raccoons Takes Over Golden Gate Park”, in Oddee‎[2], archived from the original on 30 July 2026:
      Even as the world limps back to normal, some weird wildlife stuff is going on–like a gaze of aggressive raccoons taking over Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
    • 2024 October 10, Julia Dallas, “WDFW: Gaze of raccoons have dispersed after Poulsbo woman stopped feeding them”, in My Northwest‎[3], archived from the original on 30 July 2026:
      A Poulsbo woman who found herself surrounded by a gaze of raccoons Monday has regained her home.

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References

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  1. ^ Gaze in Webster's Dictionary

Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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gaze

  1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of gaz

French

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Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”)

    Noun

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    gaze f (plural gazes)

    1. gauze
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    • → English: gauze
    • → Danish: gaze
    • → Dutch: gaas
    • → German: Gaze
    • → Polish: gaza
    • → Russian: газ (gaz)
    • → Scots: gais, gaes

    Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      gaze

      1. inflection of gazer:
        1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
        2. second-person singular imperative

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      Middle English

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      Verb

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      gaze

      1. alternative form of gasen

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      gaze f (plural gazes)

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

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      Romanian

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      gaze n

      1. indefinite plural of gaz
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