Definitions for spectacle

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spectacle spec·ta·cle

Spelling: [spek-tuh-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈspɛk tə kəl/

Spectacle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 433 anagrams from letters in spectacle (acceelpst).

Definitions for spectacle

noun

1. anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind:
2. a public show or display, especially on a large scale:
3. spectacles, eyeglasses, especially with pieces passing over or around the ears for holding them in place.
4. Often, spectacles. something resembling spectacles in shape or function. any of various devices suggesting spectacles, as one attached to a semaphore to display lights or different colors by colored glass.
5. Obsolete. a spyglass.

Idioms

1. make a spectacle of oneself, to call attention to one's unseemly behavior; behave foolishly or badly in public:

Origin of spectacle

1300-50; Middle English Latin spectāculum a sight, spectacle, derivative of spectāre, frequentative of specere to look, regard. See -cle²

Examples for spectacle

The resurrected vampire graves in particular have created quite a spectacle.

But the spectacle playing out on Pennsylvania is about more than one condemned inmate.

The spectacle as night fell was strange, ominous, but not unpicturesque.

“I am not interested in just creating a spectacle of myself,” she says.

Had they been in the West Bank, the spectacle would hardly have attracted notice.

The plot of the film runs secondary to the spectacle, and is denser than a TED conference.

There was a hideous fascination in this spectacle stretched before us.

He saw himself as he was—or nearly—and the spectacle did not please him.

It is a spectacle that may inspire the philosopher no less than the artist.

They did not talk much; there was a silencing awe in the spectacle.