spectacles
- noun
- /ˈspɛktəklz/
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gafas
- Lee Pratt, APSA, Atlanta, "The Spectacles"
A pair of glasses known as spectacles and these were made by Snapchat.
- A pair of glasses known as spectacles and these were made by Snapchat.
- Final thoughts on the new styles of Snapchat Spectacles.
- Is this what will the professor do when the secret police smashed break the door, smash his spectacles and take him away?
- I have been such a huge fan of the Spectacles and I guess what the line was short, so I went in, got a pair.
- The budget won't allow spectacles of the avatar kind, but not not yet.
- Well, they're very well adapted for placing our spectacles upon.
Examples
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You must never be without these spectacles, or your furies will return to you.
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The budget won't allow spectacles of the avatar kind, but not not yet.
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Is this what will the professor do when the secret police smashed break the door, smash his spectacles and take him away?
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A pair of glasses known as spectacles and these were made by Snapchat.
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I've got the snap spectacles, so this is the lenses.
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Your Lewis Suspend Junior Spectacles unit 1013T is more of a timeless selection for boys or girls.
Blog text (34) -
Now, this is a guy that wore little little red spectacles and had a giant cigar in his mouth like it was a larger than life children's entertainer.
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Old McNaughton goes out in his top hat and blue tinted spectacles to negotiate, but he's shot dead by the Afghan negotiating party.
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Entitled "Telescopic Spectacles and Magnifiers as Aids to Poor Vision" (Gradle & Stein, 1925), the paper was written by two ophthalmologists and was excerpted from a presentation given at a meeting of the American Medical Association.
Academic text (2006) -
She put on her spectacles to read the small print on the document.
Synonyms
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1.0
A frame with lenses you wear to help you see
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6.9
A pair of glasses you wear to help you see
A pair of lenses in a frame worn on the nose and ears to help you see better
Something you wear on your face to help you see
Glasses you wear to help you see or read
A pair of glasses worn to look fashionable rather than to correct sight
Round glasses with thin metal frames and a simple bridge like John Lennon wore
Compounds
- Archaic
Round glasses with thin metal frames and a simple bridge like John Lennon wore
How Corrective
- Specialized
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3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
spectacles = spectacle (transparent) = spectacle + s
The form is a regular plural of 'spectacle'; the plurality marking directly signals more than one and does not alter meaning.
Etymology
The word spectacles comes from the Latin root spect-, used in spectator, which means 'to look'. So spectacles are things you wear to help you look and see more clearly.