# gaze
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡeɪz/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɡæɪz/
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* Rhymes: -eɪz
* Homophone: gays

### Verb

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

#### Synonyms

* gape, stare, look

#### Troponyms

* (to stare intently): ogle

#### Derived terms

* at gaze
* begaze
* crystal-gazing
* downgaze
* eyegaze
* foregaze
* gazee
* gazeful
* gazeless
* gazement
* gazer
* gazing ball
* gazy
* nongaze
* outgaze
* overgaze
* shoegaze
* stargaze
* ungazed

#### Translations

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### Noun

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: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.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
** 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 11:Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* female gaze
* foregaze
* gazehound
* male gaze
* Nancy Reagan gaze
* sidegaze

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* upgaze

### References

* ↑ Gaze in Webster's Dictionary

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* gazra

### Noun

gaze
* indefinite nominative/accusative plural of gaz

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaz/ ~ /ɡɑz/
* Homophones: gaz, gazes, gazent

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”)

#### Noun

gaze f (plural gazes)
* gauze

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gaze
* inflection of gazer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “gaze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Verb

gaze
* Alternative form of gasen

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡa.zi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡa.zi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡa.ze/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡa.zɨ/
* Rhymes: -azi, -azɨ
* Hyphenation: ga‧ze

### Noun

gaze f (plural gazes)
* gauze (thin fabric with open weave)
* gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡaze]

### Noun

gaze n
* indefinite plural of gaz