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# spectacled

«spectacled» in Mova's school dictionary: **wearing glasses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (spectacled)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spectacled means wearing glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#m1)

2) In animal names it means having rings or marks around the eyes that look like glasses, as in «spectacled bear» or «spectacled owl». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in story descriptions of characters («a spectacled old man»), and in science/nature lessons in animal names; it is a slightly old-fashioned, bookish word.

### examples

- A spectacled teacher peered over her desk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#x1)
- The spectacled bear lives in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#x2)
- The spectacled owl has white rings around its eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#x3)
- A spectacled boy sat reading in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#x4)
- Spectacled flying foxes live in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacled/#x5)

### note

Comes from «spectacles» (an older word for glasses). Not connected with «spectacular». Mostly used before a noun: «a spectacled man».

### Trees and pragmatics

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