opera glasses

1. 1.

   (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes

   Synonymsbinocularsfield glasses

   Broaderoptical instrument

   Partseyepiece

   plural

Questions about opera glasses

What does opera glasses mean?

opera glasses means "(plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes".

What is another word for opera glasses?

Close synonyms include binoculars, field glasses. 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 opera glasses a common word?

opera 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.