reticule

1. 1.

   a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries

   Broaderbag
2. 2.

   a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument

   Synonymsreticlegraticule

   Broadernetwork

   Part ofeyepiece

   Partscross hair

Other forms of reticule

plural

reticules·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reticule

What does reticule mean?

reticule means "a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reticule?

reticule has 4 syllables: re-ti-cu-le. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reticule?

Close synonyms include reticle, graticule. 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 reticule a common word?

reticule 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.