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eyeglasses

/ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz/

eyeglasses noun: spectacles, glasses. Also the plural of eyeglass.

Noun

eyeglasses pl (plural only, attributive eyeglass)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only) Spectacles, glasses.
    • 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,[…].2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC

Also used as

eyeglasses is also the plural of eyeglass.

Forms of eyeglasses

attributiveeyeglass
alternative formeye-glasses

Origin of eyeglasses

From eye + glasses.

Words formed from eyeglasses

Phrases with eyeglasses

Questions about eyeglasses

What does eyeglasses mean?
Eyeglasses means spectacles, glasses.
What part of speech is eyeglasses?
Eyeglasses is a noun.
How do you pronounce eyeglasses?
Eyeglasses is pronounced /ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz/ (US).

Words near eyeglasses in the dictionary

  1. eyegear
  2. eyeglance
  3. eyeglances
  4. eyeglass
  5. eyeglassed
  6. eyeglasses
  7. eyeglobe
  8. eyeglobes
  9. eyeground
  10. eyegrounds
  11. eyehole

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