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Spectacles vs Eyeglasses - What's the difference?

spectacles | eyeglasses | Synonyms |

Eyeglasses is a synonym of spectacles.



As nouns the difference between spectacles and eyeglasses

is that spectacles is plural of lang=en while eyeglasses is spectacles, glasses.

spectacles

English

(wikipedia spectacles)

Noun

(head)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

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

    See also

    * bespectacled * bifocals * contact, contact lens * eyepiece * lens * monocle * pince-nez * shades * sunglasses * sunnies * varifocals * * ----

    eyeglasses

    English

    Noun

  • (label) Spectacles, glasses.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • .

    • See also

    * lorgnette * lorgnon