Thesaurus: spectacle

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1. n. Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
2. n. A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
3. n. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
4. n. Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
5. n. something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)
6. n. an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
7. n. a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase ‘make a spectacle of’ yourself
8. 1. Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock. O, piteous spectacle O, bloody times! Shak. 2. A spy-glass; a looking-glass. [Obs.] Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see. Chaucer. 3. pl. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight. Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. Dryden. Syn. -- Show; sight; exhibition; representation; pageant.
9. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a lightframe, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organsof vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
10. n:100 n. something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) n. an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale n. a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself