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binoculars

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɪˈnɒk.jʊ.lə(ɹ)z//
  • United Kingdom//bəˈnɒk.jə.lə(ɹ)z//
  • United States//(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz//
  • United States//bəˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz//

A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

noun

  1. 1

    A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

    He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

Etymology

Abbreviation of "binocular glass".

Forms

singular
binocular
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).