eyedrop

See also: eye-drop and eye drop

English

Alternative forms

• eye-drop
• eye drop

Etymology

eye +‎ drop

Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
2. (poetic) A tear.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, IV. v. 88:

     My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.

Hypernyms

• drop

Translations

eye medicine

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 眼藥水／眼药水 (ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi²), 眼药水 (ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi²)

  Mandarin: 眼藥水／眼药水 (zh) (yǎnyàoshuǐ), 眼药水 (zh) (yǎnyàoshuǐ)

• Czech: oční kapky f pl
• Finnish: silmätippa
• French: gouttes oculaires f pl
• German: Augentropfen (de) m
• Hungarian: szemcsepp (hu)
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• Italian: collirio (it)
• Japanese: 目薬 (megusuri)
• Korean: 안약 (anyag)
• Portuguese: colírio m
• Spanish: colirio (es) m
• Tagalog: pamasla
• Turkish: göz damlası
• Volapük: logatof

References

• eyedrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia