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eye drop

eye drop is the alternative form of eyedrop.

Meaning of eyedrop

Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

  1. Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.
  2. (poetic) A tear.
    • 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.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    Synonyms:
    teardrop

Forms of eye drop

pluraleye drops

Questions about eye drop

What is eye drop the alternative form of?
Eye drop is the alternative form of eyedrop.

Words near eye drop in the dictionary

  1. eye cup
  2. eye dialect
  3. eye dialects
  4. eye doctor
  5. eye doctors
  6. eye drop
  7. eye drops
  8. eye examination
  9. eye examinations
  10. eye fillet
  11. eye fillets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye drop (page history and authors); eyedrop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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