What does "gaze" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "gaze"?

Common synonyms include: gape, regard, stare, admire, be amazed, be astonished.

//ɡeɪz// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

1
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
"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
a long fixed look wordnet
3
The object gazed on. archaic
"Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell."
4
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
"She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator."

Verb

1
To stare intently or earnestly. intransitive
"They gazed at the stars for hours."
2
look at with fixed eyes wordnet
3
To stare at. poetic, transitive
"Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie"