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loupe

/luːp/

loupe noun: a magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.

loupe: a magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers
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Noun

loupe (plural loupes)

  1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
    • Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213
    • pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235
  2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Proper noun capitalized: Loupe

Loupe (plural Loupes)

  1. A surname.

loupe meaning in Tamil and Kannada

loupe in Tamil

இருகண் பூதக்கண்ணாடி, ஒளி பெருக்கக் குவி ஆடி, ஒளிக் குவி ஆடி

loupe in Kannada

ಮಸೂರ, ಬೂದುಗಾಜು

Forms of loupe

Noun
pluralloupes
Proper noun
pluralLoupes

Origin of loupe

Borrowed from French loupe.

Words formed from loupe

Words that rhyme with loupe

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about loupe

What does loupe mean?
Loupe means a magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
What is loupe in Tamil?
Loupe in Tamil is இருகண் பூதக்கண்ணாடி, ஒளி பெருக்கக் குவி ஆடி, ஒளிக் குவி ஆடி. See Loupe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is loupe?
Loupe can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce loupe?
Loupe is pronounced /luːp/.
What is the plural of loupe?
The plural of loupe is loupes.

Words near loupe in the dictionary

  1. Loup County
  2. loup-cervier
  3. loup-cerviers
  4. loup-garou
  5. loup-garous
  6. loupe
  7. loupes
  8. louping
  9. louping ill
  10. louping-ill
  11. loups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loupe (page history and authors); Loupe (page history and authors); loupe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loupe (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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