glasses

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

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæsɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːsɪz

glasses

1. plural of glass
   • 1810, Thomas Williamson, East India Vade-Mecum..., p. 323:

     Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape, and its seat, much resemble the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give it, in those respects, some claim to alliance with the [chariot].

glasses pl (plural only)

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

     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 of glass

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

• Category:glasses on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• gasless, sagless

glasses

1. plural of glas