3syllables
spectacle
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Definitions ofspectacle
1noun
- An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
Example: "The horse race was a thrilling spectacle."
- An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
Example: "He made a spectacle out of himself."
- (usually in the plural) 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.
- An aid to the intellectual sight.
- A spyglass; a looking-glass.
- The brille of a snake.
- 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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