spectacles
A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
Example
“He needed to get new spectacles because his original ones had broken.”
Synonyms
- glasses
- pair of glasses
- pair of spectacles
A kind of
- optical instrument
Kinds of spectacles
- goggles
- sunglasses
Related words
- flyaway spectacles
- Harry Potter spectacles
- rose-coloured spectacles
- John Lennon spectacles
- rose-tinted spectacles
- bespectacled
- X-ray spectacles
- rose-colored spectacles
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “spectacles” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.