spectacles

spectacles

English

Folded spectacles with bicolour frame

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: spec‧ta‧cles

Noun

spectacles pl (plural only)

1. plural of spectacle
2. (plural only, formal) 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.
3. (cricket) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)

Synonyms

• eyeglasses (US), glasses, pair of eyeglasses (US), pair of glasses, pair of specs (colloquial), pair of spectacles, specs (colloquial)

Derived terms

• John Lennon spectacles
• rose-tinted spectacles
• specky (someone who wears spectacles)
• bespectacled

Translations

plural of spectacle — see spectacle

a pair of lenses set in a frame

Afrikaans: bril (af) Albanian: gjyzlykë (sq) f, syze (sq) f Amharic: መነጽር (mänäṣr) Arabic: نَظَّارَة‎ f (naẓẓāra) Egyptian Arabic: نضارة‎ f (naḍḍāra) Moroccan Arabic: نضاضر‎ (nḍāḍar), نظاظر‎ (nẓāẓar) Armenian: ակնոց (hy) (aknocʿ), օպտիկական ակնոց (ōptikakan aknocʿ) Assamese: চছমা (sosoma), চৌখা (soukha), বিতচকু (bitsoku) Asturian: antegüeyos m pl Azerbaijani: gözlük (az) Bashkir: күҙлек (küðlek) Basque: betaurreko (eu) Belarusian: акуля́ры pl (akuljáry) Bengali: চশমা (bn) (côśôma) Bulgarian: очила́ (bg) pl (očilá) Burmese: မျက်မှန် (my) (myakhman) Catalan: ulleres (ca) f pl Chinese: Cantonese: 眼鏡, 眼镜 (ngaan5 geng3-2) Dungan: нянҗинзы (ni͡anžinzɨ) Gan: 眼鏡子, 眼镜子 (ngan3 jiang4 zi) Hakka: 目鏡, 目镜 (muk-kiang, mè-ka-né) Mandarin: 眼鏡／眼镜 (zh) (yǎnjìng), 眼鏡兒／眼镜儿 (zh) (yǎnjìngr) (colloquial) Min Dong: 眼鏡, 眼镜 (ngiāng-giáng) Min Nan: 目鏡 (zh-min-nan), 目镜 (ba̍k-kiàⁿ), 眼鏡, 眼镜 (gán-kiàⁿ) Wu: 眼鏡, 眼镜 (nge jin) Czech: brýle (cs) f pl Danish: briller (da) c pl Dutch: bril (nl) m Esperanto: okulvitro, okulvitroj (eo) pl Estonian: prillid (et) pl Farefare: ninbɩsga Faroese: brillur f pl Finnish: silmälasit (fi) French: lunettes (fr) f pl, barniques (fr) f pl (slang, Canada), binocles (fr) m pl, bésicles (fr) pl Fula: Adlam: 𞤦𞤢𞤧𞤢𞤪𞤯𞤫‎ Latin: basarɗe Galician: anteollos (gl) m pl, lentes f pl Georgian: სათვალე (satvale) German: Brille (de) f Alemannic German: Augenspiegel m Gilbertese: te kirati ni mata Greek: γυαλιά (el) n pl (gyaliá), ματογυάλια (el) n pl (matogyália) (dated) Greenlandic: isarussat Gujarati: ચશ્મા (caśmā) Haitian Creole: linèt Hawaiian: makaaniani Hebrew: מִשְׁקָפַיִם \\ משקפיים‎ (he) m pl (mishkafáyim) Hindi: ऐनक (hi) f (ainak), चश्मा (hi) m (caśmā), उपनेत्र (hi) (upnetra) Hungarian: szemüveg (hu) Icelandic: gleraugu (is) n pl Ido: binoklo (io), orel-binoklo (io) Indonesian: kacamata (id) Ingrian: ockat pl Inuktitut: Inuttut: ijautik South Baffin: ᐃᒡᒑᒃ (iccaak) Irish: spéaclaí m pl, gloiní f pl Italian: occhiali (it) m pl Japanese: 眼鏡 (ja) (めがね, megane, がんきょう, gankyō) Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡಕ (kn) (kannaḍaka) Kazakh: көзәйнек (közäinek), көзілдірік (kk) (közıldırık), әйнек (äinek) Khmer: ស្នងភ្នែក (snɑɑng phnɛɛk), វ៉ែនតា (km) (vaen taa) Korean: 안경(眼鏡) (ko) (an'gyeong) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: çavik (ku), berçavk (ku), eynek (ku) Kusaal: ninligirɩŋ Kyrgyz: көз айнек (ky) (köz aynek), айнек (ky) (aynek) Lao: ແວ່ນຕາ (lo) (wǣn tā) Latin: perspicillum n, vitra ocularia n pl Latvian: brilles f, acenes f pl (dated) Lithuanian: akiniai pl Lü: ᦶᦞᧃᧈᦎᦱ (vaen¹ṫaa) Macedonian: очила n pl (očila), наочари f pl (naočari) Malay: kaca mata (ms), cermin mata (ms) Malayalam: കണ്ണട (ml) (kaṇṇaṭa) Maltese: nuċċalijiet pl Maori: mōwhiti Maranao: salamin Marathi: चष्मा m (caṣmā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: нүдний шил (mn) (nüdnii šil) Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠳᠦᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠢᠯ (nidün-ü sil) Moore: ningetse, nin-getse, ningɛtga Navajo: nákʼeesinilí, nákʼee sinilí Nepali: उपनेत्र (ne) (upanetra), चश्मा (ne) (caśmā) Norman: leunettes f pl (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: brille (no) m or f Nynorsk: brille f Okinawan: 眼鏡 (がんちょー, ganchoo, みーかがん, miikagan), 目眼鏡 (みーがんちょー, miiganchoo) Pashto: عينکې‎ (ps) f pl (aynaké), چشمې‎ (ps) f pl (čašmé) Persian: عینک‎ (fa) (eynak) Plautdietsch: Brell f Polish: okulary (pl) m pl Portuguese: óculos (pt) m pl Romagnol: ucél m Romanian: ochelari (ro) m pl Russian: очки́ (ru) n pl (očkí) Rusyn: (please verify) окуля́рї pl (okuljárji) Sanskrit: उपनेत्र (sa) n (upanetra) Scottish Gaelic: glainneachan f pl, speuclairean m pl Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: на̏оча̄ле f pl, на̏оча̄ре f pl Roman: nȁočāle (sh) f pl, nȁočāre (sh) f pl Silesian: bryle f Sinhalese: කන්නාඩිය (kannāḍiya), ඇස් කන්නාඩිය (æs kannāḍiya) Slovak: okuliare pl Slovene: očala (sl) pl Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: bryla f Spanish: gafas (es) f pl (chiefly Spain, Colombia, Dominican Republic), anteojos (es) m pl (Latin America, especially Argentina, Uruguay), lentes (es) m pl (Latin America), espejuelos (es) m pl (Cuba, Puerto Rico) Swahili: miwani (sw) class 4 Swedish: glasögon (sv) pl Tagalog: salamin sa mata Tajik: айнак (tg) (aynak) Tamil: கண்ணாடி (ta) (kaṇṇāṭi), தண்ணாடி (taṇṇāṭi) Tatar: күзлек (tt) (küzlek) Telugu: కళ్ళజోడు (kaḷḷajōḍu) Thai: แว่นตา (th) (wɛ̂n-dtaa) Tibetan: མིག་ཤེལ (mig shel) Tigrinya: መነጽር (mänäṣr) Turkish: gözlük (tr) Turkmen: äýnek Ukrainian: окуля́ри pl (okuljáry) Urdu: عینک‎ f (ainak), چشمہ‎ m (caśma) Uyghur: كۆزەينەك‎ (közeynek) Uzbek: koʻzoynak (uz), oynak (uz) Vietnamese: kính (vi), mắt kính, kính mắt (vi) Votic: silmiklaazid pl Welsh: sbectol (cy) f, gwydrau (cy) m pl, glasys m pl West Frisian: bril (fy) n White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: ברילן‎ pl (briln) Zhuang: gingqda, nganxciuq (dialectal), nganxgingq (dialectal), giengqha (dialectal), giengqda (dialectal), yangzgingq (dialectal)

Further reading

• Spectacles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “spectacles”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “spectacles”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “spectacles”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “spectacles” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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French

Noun

spectacles m

1. plural of spectacle