eyeglasses

Woman wearing eyeglasses

eye +‎ glasses

• eye-glasses

eyeglasses pl (plural only)

1. (US) Spectacles, glasses.
   • 2013 September-October, Petroski, Henry, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996, OCLC 645082957:

     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, […].

• pair of eyeglasses

• lorgnette
• lorgnon

eyeglasses

1. Plural of eyeglass.

• “eyeglasses”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “eyeglasses”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “eyeglasses”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “eyeglasses” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.