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Definition: Spectacled |
SpectacledAdjective1. Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; "a bespectacled grandmother"; "the monocled gentleman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spectacled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Synonyms: SpectacledSynonyms: bespectacled (adj), monocled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spectacled |
| English words defined with "spectacled": Somateria mollissima ♦ Yacare. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Acrylic painting of a spectacled eider flying over an Arctic seascape by Joseph Hautman, 410 Sycamore Circle, Plymouth, MN 55441. Hautman's design was one of 585 entered in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He studied art and physics at the University of Minnesota where he received a degree in physics and later received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. His published work has contributed to the understanding of a broad range of phenomenon -- from the shapes of water droplets and snow flakes to the miscroscopic structures of soap bubbles and cell membranes. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Spectacled Eider. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Spectacled" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Spectacled" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spectacled": bespectacled monocled spectacled ♦ spectacled alligator ♦ Spectacled bear ♦ spectacled caiman ♦ spectacled cayman ♦ spectacled cobra ♦ Spectacled coot ♦ Spectacled duck ♦ Spectacled eider ♦ Spectacled goose ♦ spectacled old woman ♦ Spectacled snake. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spectacled bear | 12 |
caiman spectacled | 6 |
amazon spectacled | 5 |
porpoise spectacled | 3 |
eider spectacled | 3 |
amazon fronted spectacled white | 3 |
owl spectacled | 2 |
parrotlet spectacled | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spectacled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Me Syze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Очилат, С Кръгове Около Очите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Obrýlený (bespectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | brillesanger (spectacled warbler), brillekaiman (Rio Apaporis caiman, spectacled caiman), brilleederfugl (spectacled eider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | brilkaaiman (spectacled caiman), brilgrasmus (spectacled warbler), brileidereend (spectacled eider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaimaani (cayman, spectacled caiman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tisserin lunettes (spectacled weaver), hyphanturgus ocularis (spectacled weaver), fauvette lunettes (spectacled warbler), eider de Fischer (spectacled eider), eider lunettes (spectacled eider), caïman lunettes (spectacled caiman), \CAI (spectacled caiman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bebrillt (bespectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | "ιοπροφόροσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szemüveges (bespectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sterpazzola di Sardegna (spectacled warbler), tessitore dagli occhiali (hyphanturgus ocularis, spectacled weaver), hyphanturgus ocularis (hyphanturgus ocularis, spectacled weaver), caimano dagli occhiali (Rio Apaporis caiman, spectacled caiman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | speckleyragh (bespectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectacledspay que usa óculos, com óculos. (various references) Oacheş (black, dark, gipsy, swarthy), Cu Ochelari, Cercãnat (ringed). (various references) Очковый, Носящий Очки. (various references) koji nosi naočare (bespectacled). (various references) que lleva gafas (bespectacled), Con Gafas (bespectacled). (various references) Glasögonprydd. (various references) Gözlüklü (bespectacled). (various references) Очковий, ' Окулярах. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amazona pretrei pretrei, Caiman crocodilus, Somateria fischeri, Sylvia conspicillata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "spectacled": bespectacled. (additional references) | |
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"Spectacled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: specaled, spectable, spectacal, spectale, spectecel, spectecle, spectecled, specticle, spetacle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "spectacled" (pronounced 'Spec"ta*cled'): Auricled, Calycled, Carbuncled, Macled, Mascled, Muscled, Panicled, Peduncled, Semicircled, Siphuncled, tentacled, Tubercled, Vehicled. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-l-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: spectacle. | |
-2 letters: accepted, capelets, pedestal. | |
-3 letters: accedes, accepts, capelet, caplets, castled, celesta, clasped, cleated, delates, elapsed, escaped, pectase, pestled, petaled, placets, pleased, pleated, scalped, sepaled, specced, stapled. | |
-4 letters: accede, accept, adepts, asleep, aspect, cadets, calces, caplet, castle, ceased, clades, claspt, cleats, cleped, clepes, decals, delate, deltas, desalt, eclats, elapse, elated, elates, eldest, elects, epacts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-l-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: bespectacled. | |
+4 letters: conceptualised. | |
+5 letters: complicatedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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