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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Spectacle (0.01124 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Spectacle.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: spectacle
tontonan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spectacle
spectacle
n 1: something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual
sight);
“the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to
escape”
2: an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
3: a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase
`make a spectacle of' yourself
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Spectacle
Spectacle
\Spec"ta*cle\, n. [F., fr. L. spectaculum, fr.
spectare to look at, to behold, v. intens. fr. specere. See
Spy.]
1. Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented
to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of
special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show;
a pageant; a gazingstock.
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O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times! --Shak.
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2. A spy-glass; a looking-glass. [Obs.]
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Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me,
Through which he may his very friends see.
--Chaucer.
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3. pl. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in
a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some
defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from
bright light.
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4. pl. Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
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Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books
to read nature. --Dryden.
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Syn: Show; sight; exhibition; representation; pageant.
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