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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
bespectacled
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, derogatory, not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
The Spectator, a British current-affairs magazine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, colloquial
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of spectacular mark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Qualifier: Australian rules football
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: spectacular mark
Antonyms: none provided
History
From spec (“spectacles”) + -ie.
Diminutive forms with + -y.
From spec (“spectacular”) + -ie.
