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Meaning of Eyeglasses | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz

Definitions

Spectacles, glasses.

US, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Bosanski наочаре
Suomi kakkulat
Hrvatski očale
日本語 眼鏡 靉靆
Polski bryle cyngiel
Српски наочаре
Українська окуляри

Examples

“Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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