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Sunglasses vs Eyeglasses - What's the difference?

sunglasses | eyeglasses |

As nouns the difference between sunglasses and eyeglasses

is that sunglasses is tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun while eyeglasses is spectacles, glasses.

sunglasses

English

Alternative forms

* sun-glasses

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun.
  • (colloquial) A person wearing sunglasses
  • * 2011 , - (We Are Young)
    • My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar

    Synonyms

    * shades (slang) * sunnies (Australian slang)

    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,
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    • See also

    * lorgnette * lorgnon