spectacles
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈspɛktəklz/
- Lee Pratt, APSA, Atlanta, "The Spectacles"
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Watch on YouTubeA pair of glasses known as spectacles and these were made by Snapchat.
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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?
- 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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1.0
A pair of lenses in a frame worn on the nose and ears to help you see better
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6.9
A pair of glasses you wear to help you see
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4.2
Something you wear on your face to help you see
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9.6
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
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2.0
- 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.