glasses

UK/ˈɡlɑːsɪz/US/ˈɡlæsɪz/

nounA1Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,024 of 15,258leans spoken

You wear glasses on your nose to see better. Wear glasses, reading glasses, a new pair of glasses.

They are always plural and take a pair — a pair of glasses, not a glasses — like trousers and scissors. Lenses bend light to move the focus onto the retina, which is all correction is. Reading glasses become necessary for nearly everybody after about forty. Note spectacles, the formal word, and specs, the informal one.

Definitions of glasses

1nounglassesLenses worn in front of the eyes to see better.A1
“She can't read the menu without her glasses.”

glasses is an eyewear item.

Also accepted in games: spectacles, eyeglasses

Practised in Clothes & Fashion

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glasses in the wild

Wearers may use straps tied to their glasses to prevent them from falling off.
Glasses
Safety glasses are eye protection, a form of personal protective equipment (PPE) that are worn by workers around their eyes for protection.
Glasses
Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
Pince-nez
Horn-rimmed glasses are usually associated with thick, prominent rims, in contrast to thinner metal, wire or rimless eyeglass frames.
Horn-rimmed glasses
In wealthy homes in England, glasses replaced silver wine cups of very similar size and shape in the 1600s.
Wine glass

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