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spectacles

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈspɛktəkl̩z//

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.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of spectacleplural of spectacle

noun

  1. 1

    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.

    He needed to get new spectacles because his original ones had broken.

  2. 2

    slangSynonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”).

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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).