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eyeglass

[ ahy-glas, ahy-glahs ]

noun

  1. eyeglasses, glass ( def 7 ).
  2. a single lens used to aid vision, especially one worn or carried on the person; monocle.
  3. an eyepiece.
  4. an eyecup.


eyeglass

/ ˈaɪˌɡlɑːs /

noun

  1. a lens for aiding or correcting defective vision, esp a monocle
  2. another word for eyepiece


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eyeglass1

First recorded in 1605–15; eye + glass

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Example Sentences

Seager writes about being threatened by a patient with a shank carved out of an eyeglass stem.

Seton, smoking one of the inevitable cheroots, watched him, tapping his teeth with the rim of his eyeglass.

His interlocutor began, with a shake of the eyeglass, to shift and sidle again, as if distinctly excited by the subject.

Verinder helped himself to a sandwich, ogling Moya the while with his eyeglass.

"We mustn't put it too baldly," observed Southend, dangling his eyeglass.

Mr. O'Royster adjusted his eyeglass and looked with a sort of serene curiosity at the man.

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