spectacle
IPA: spˈɛktʌkʌɫ
noun
- An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
- An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
- (usually in the plural) glasses (instrument used to assist vision)
- The brille of a snake.
- (rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
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Examples of "spectacle" in Sentences
- The spectacle gathered crowds.
- Take the spectacles to your room.
- Mitchell wore spectacles in the match.
- She fainted from the horror of the spectacle.
- In 1781 Peter Dollond made bifocal spectacles.
- It is simply the echo chamber of the global Spectacle.
- Absence of the spectacles is considered a serious fault.
- Richardson was one of the few Australians to play with spectacles.
- The Commissioner contemplated on the spectacle with reverence and wonder.
- The depravity of modern online movement conservatives is a spectacle to behold.
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