dark glasses

1. 1.

   (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun

   “he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades”

   Synonymssunglassesshades

   Broaderspectacles

   PartsPolaroid

   plural

Questions about dark glasses

What does dark glasses mean?

dark glasses means "(plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun".

What is another word for dark glasses?

Close synonyms include sunglasses, shades. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dark glasses a common word?

dark glasses is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.