Definitions for glasses

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glasses glass

Spelling: [glas, glahs]

IPA: /glæs, glɑs/

Glasses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in glasses (aeglsss).

Definitions for glasses

noun

1. a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
2. any artificial or natural substance having similar properties and composition, as fused borax, obsidian, or the like.
3. something made of such a substance, as a windowpane.
4. a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container.
5. glasses, Also called eyeglasses. a device to compensate for defective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like, consisting usually of two glass or plastic lenses set in a frame that includes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and two sidepieces extending over or around the ears (usually used with pair of). Compare goggle (def 1a), pince-nez, spectacle (def 3).
6. a mirror.
7. things made of glass, collectively; glassware:
8. a glassful.
9. a lens, especially one used as a magnifying glass.
10. a spyglass.
11. Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman.
12. Philip, born 1937, U.S. composer.

adjective

1. made of glass:
2. furnished or fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

verb (used with object)

1. to fit with panes of glass.
2. cover with or encase in glass.
3. to coat or cover with fiberglass:
4. to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument.
5. to reflect:

Origin of glasses

before 900; Middle English glas (noun), Old English glæs; cognate with Dutch, German Glas

Examples for glasses

He did not wipe away the tears, but the long lenses of the television cameras showed him blinking them back behind his glasses.

From the bar came the jingle of glasses and loud, cheerful conversation.

I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.

Behind glass doors it displayed an assortment of glasses, stacked tea cups; a small row of books; a bouquet of fake flowers.

As the waiter would have refilled the glasses, Blythe stopped him.

Wonderland posted videos taken with a hidden camera—in a cross necklace, or inside a watch or glasses—of him hitting on women.

Garson brought his fist down on the table with a force that made the glasses jingle.

It was the gray-headed man with the glasses and the kindly look about the eyes.

As the next toast fell to his lot, he would ask them to charge their glasses.

He turned around, not sure what to make of the girl in the glasses and NYU hoodie calling him like she knew him.