spectacles

«spectacles» in Mova's school dictionary: Glasses: two lenses in a frame worn to help you see better — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (spectacles — plural, glasses); also plural of spectacle (a spectacle, spectacles)

meaning for a pupil

1) Glasses: two lenses in a frame worn to help you see better. tree →

2) Plural of «spectacle»: impressive shows or sights, like fireworks. tree →

3) «Make a spectacle of yourself»: behave in a silly way that makes people stare. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life «spectacles» is a slightly old-fashioned word for glasses (short: specs). In science, the lenses of spectacles bend light to help short- or long-sighted people. In stories and news, a spectacle is a grand show — a firework display or a parade.

examples

• Grandpa can't read without his spectacles. tree →
• She pushed her spectacles up her nose. tree →
• Spectacles help people who are short-sighted see far away. tree →
• The fireworks were amazing spectacles. tree →
• Don't make a spectacle of yourself at the wedding! tree →
• Where are my specs? tree →
• Michael had tried on his spectacles. tree →

note

As glasses, always plural: «a pair of spectacles», «my spectacles are…». Informal: specs. Linked: spectator.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spectacles» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.