glasses

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæsɪz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlasɪz/, /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsɪz

glasses

1. plural of glass

glasses pl (plural only)

1. Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.
2. Field glasses; binoculars.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:

     He had his Zeiss glasses in his hand. "I focused it before it got over the trees," said he.

• A sight-improving lens for a single eye is a monocle.
• Though confusion is unlikely, clarity as to quantity is improved by using the expressions "a pair of glasses" (or "a pair of eyeglasses"). When they are being counted, the “pair of” is required: "(however many) pair(s) of eyeglasses.”

• (spectacles): eyeglasses (US), specs, bioptikon

glasses

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glass

• bifocals
• contact lens
• monocle
• pince-nez
• shades
• varifocals

• glasses on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• gasless, sagless

glasses

1. plural of glas