eyeglasses

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English

Etymology

eye +‎ glasses

Noun

Template:en-plural noun

  1. (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, […].

eyeglasses

  1. plural of eyeglass.

Translations

spectacles — see spectacles

See also

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