monocle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   lens for correcting defective vision in one eye

2. 2
   noun

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

3. 3
   noun

   A one-eyed animal.

Simplified etymology

Monocle comes from Latin monoculus, meaning “one-eyed.” Its first element, mono- “one,” was borrowed into Latin from Greek.

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

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