Meaning

2 senses
  1. A small portable telescope.

    Fernglas

    подзо́рная труба́podzórnaja trubá

    a small refracting telescope

  2. (regional, uncommon)A pair of binoculars.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Pirates used spyglasses to see far away.

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  2. Lend me the spyglass, that I may see better.

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  3. His account of a solar eclipse viewed at Devonport through a small spyglass got into print in a London paper.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
portable telescope:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
portable telescope:

Origin

From spy + glass.

From spy + glass.

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Forms

plural: spyglasses
Singularspyglass
Pluralspyglasses

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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