Eyeglasses
//ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Spectacles, glasses. US, plural, plural-only
"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,[…]."
- 2 Plural of eyeglass. form-of, plural
- 3 (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision wordnet
Example
More examples"Ours are quality frames and not low quality articles. Eyeglasses of this kind are considerably more expensive in any optical shop."
Etymology
From eye + glasses.
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