Definitions for spectacles

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spectacles spec·ta·cle

Spelling: [spek-tuh-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈspɛk tə kəl/

Spectacles is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 538 anagrams from letters in spectacles (acceelpsst).

Definitions for spectacles

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 spectacles

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

Examples for spectacles

As he peers over his spectacles, Leveson is a big predatory cat that beguiles as he smiles.

These spectacles are planned with aching attention to detail.

And suicide is just one of the many shocking 4chan spectacles, which range from bullying to stripping to killing pets on camera.

Other young men play sports and watch them; Tamim simply bought the spectacles and events themselves.

The teacher sunk into a chair, and put his spectacles on his nose.

Now I was provided with the book, I could not read for want of spectacles.

She could not see them, for the spectacles dazzled her, but she remembered exactly how they looked.

I fancied her ladyship in spectacles, with little side curls.

The other turned his spectacles upon Ossipon like a pair of searchlights.

Of course, other recent royal pageants and spectacles have been something of a mixed bag, economically speaking.