eye
An organ through which animals .
Other meanings
The visual sense.
“The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.”
The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
“Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.”
Synonyms
- optic
A kind of
- sense organ
Kinds of eye
- simple eye
- compound eye
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ēage".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “eye” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.