hand glass

Questions about hand glass

What does hand glass mean?

hand glass means "a mirror intended to be held in the hand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hand glass?

Close synonyms include hand mirror, simple microscope, magnifying glass. 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 hand glass a common word?

hand glass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.