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# spectacle

«spectacle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a striking or strange sight that people stare at** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural spectacles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spectacle is a striking or strange sight that people stare at. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/#m1)

2) (plural) Spectacles are glasses worn on the face to help the eyes see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a spectacle is a shocking or grand scene that people gather to watch, often a frightening one

### examples

- He was amazed at this frightful spectacle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/#x1)
- The crowd gathered to watch the spectacle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/#x2)
- Grandad put on his spectacles to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; «spectacles» means glasses, not a number

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spectacle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.