glasses

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/, /ˈɡlasɪz/

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

glasses

1. plural of glass
   • 1810, Thomas Williamson, East India Vade-Mecum..., page 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 its 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, biopticon

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