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# spectacles

«spectacles» in Mova's school dictionary: **Glasses: two lenses in a frame worn to help you see better** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (spectacles — plural, glasses); also plural of spectacle (a spectacle, spectacles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glasses: two lenses in a frame worn to help you see better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#m1)

2) Plural of «spectacle»: impressive shows or sights, like fireworks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#m2)

3) «Make a spectacle of yourself»: behave in a silly way that makes people stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life «spectacles» is a slightly old-fashioned word for glasses (short: specs). In science, the lenses of spectacles bend light to help short- or long-sighted people. In stories and news, a spectacle is a grand show — a firework display or a parade.

### examples

- Grandpa can't read without his spectacles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x1)
- She pushed her spectacles up her nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x2)
- Spectacles help people who are short-sighted see far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x3)
- The fireworks were amazing spectacles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x4)
- Don't make a spectacle of yourself at the wedding! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x5)
- Where are my specs? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x6)
- Michael had tried on his spectacles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectacles/#x7)

### note

As glasses, always plural: «a pair of spectacles», «my spectacles are…». Informal: specs. Linked: spectator.

### Trees and pragmatics

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