spectacle

Betekenis (Engels)

1. An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
2. An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
3. glasses (instrument used to assist vision)
4. The brille of a snake.
5. A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.

Koppelteken as

spec‧ta‧cle

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈspɛktəkl̩/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum.