eyeglasses
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
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Noun[edit]
eyeglasses pl (plural only)
- (US) Spectacles, glasses.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […].
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Translations[edit]
spectacles — see spectacles
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
eyeglasses
Further reading[edit]
- “eyeglasses”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “eyeglasses”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “eyeglasses”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “eyeglasses”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.