eyeball

Meaning

Noun

1. The ball of the eye.
2. A person's focus of attention.
3. (informal) Surveillance.
4. (in-plural) A readership or viewership.
5. (slang) A face-to-face meeting.
6. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
2. (informal, transitive) To stare at intently.
3. (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.

Synonyms

eye

👁️

orb

eyes

👀

look over

pupil of eye

pupil

floodgate

regard

round

see

👀

stare

study

look out on

watch

⌚

organ of sight

fruit

bulbus oculi

I

eeble

apple

🍎

attempt

browse

examine

face

Translations

globe oculaire

Augapfel

bulbo oculare

globo ocular

œil

👁️

globo ocular

βολβός του ματιού

globo del ojo

oogappel

ojo

👁️

Auge

👁️

olho

👁️

sbirciare

göz küresi

Etymology

From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).