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looking glass

looking glass is the alternative form of looking-glass.

Meaning of looking-glass

Noun

looking-glass (plural looking-glasses)

  1. (dated) Synonym of mirror (“smooth surface that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it”).
    • A Divine Looking-Glaſs: Or, The third and laſt Teſtament of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST, […] [title]1661, John Reeve; Lodowick Muggleton [i.e., Lodowicke Muggleton], A Divine Looking-glass: Or, The Third and Last Testament of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, […], [London]: Printed […] and reprinted for...
    Synonyms:
    mirror
  2. A way into a bizarre world.
    • It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.2016 July 29, Paul Krugman, “Who loves America?”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    rabbit hole

Forms of looking glass

plurallooking glasses

Questions about looking glass

What is looking glass the alternative form of?
Looking glass is the alternative form of looking-glass.

Words near looking glass in the dictionary

  1. looking for a dog to kick
  2. looking for number one
  3. looking for trouble
  4. looking forward
  5. looking forward to
  6. looking glass
  7. looking glasses
  8. looking in
  9. looking in on
  10. looking in the face
  11. looking into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looking glass (page history and authors); looking-glass (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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