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Webster 1913 Edition

Monocle

Mon′o-cle

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Noun.

[F. See

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An eyeglass for one eye.

Simmonds.

Definition 2024

monocle

monocle

English

Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle

Alternative forms

monicle

Noun

monocle ‎(plural monocles)

a single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye

Translations

a single lens

Chinese:
Mandarin: 單片眼鏡, 单片眼镜 ‎(dānpiànyǎnjìng), 單眼鏡 (zh), 单眼镜 (zh) ‎(dānyǎnjìng), 單透鏡, 单透镜 ‎(dāntòujìng)
Czech: monokl m
Esperanto: monoklo
Finnish: monokkeli (fi)
French: monocle (fr) m
German: Monokel (de) n
Greek: μονόκλ (el) n ‎(monókl)
Icelandic: einglyrni n
Ido: monoklo (io)
Irish: leathspéacla m
Japanese: 片眼鏡 ‎(かためがね, katamegane)
Korean: 단안경 ‎(danan-gyeong)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: yeklarî, yeklêjî

Macedonian: монокл m ‎(monókl)
Malayalam: ഒറ്റച്ചില്ലുകണ്ണട ‎(oṟṟaccillukaṇṇaṭa)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: monokkel m

Nynorsk: monokkel m
Ottawa: shkiinzhgokaajgan
Polish: monokl m
Portuguese: monóculo m
Romanian: monoclu (ro) n
Russian: моно́кль (ru) m ‎(monóklʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: монокл m

Roman: monokl (sh) m
Spanish: monóculo (es) m
Swedish: monokel (sv) c
Vietnamese: kính một mắt

See also

Anagrams

locomen

French

Etymology

From Late Latin monoculus ‎(“one-eyed”), from mono- ‎(“single”) + oculus ‎(“eye”).

Noun

monocle m ‎(plural monocles)

monocle