monocle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
A one-eyed animal.

/ˈmɑnəkəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-monocle.wav

monocle monocles

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

glasses spectacles

bemonocled monocled

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