optician

[ op-tish-uhn ]

noun

a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
a maker or seller of optical glass and instruments.

Origin of optician

1670–80; from French opticien, from Medieval Latin optic(a) (see optics) + French -ien -ian

synonym study For optician

1. See eye doctor.

Words that may be confused with optician

eye doctor, ophthalmologist, optician , optometrist (see synonym study at eye doctor)

Words Nearby optician

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How to use optician in a sentence

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Some months earlier—that is to say, about six months after Jack's departure—Sir John had called casually upon an optician.
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She told me that, being an optician in a small way as well, she had had a whole stock of spectacles and glasses.
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Was by profession an optician like Spinoza, but God vouchsafed to him greater spiritual sight than to the philosopher.
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At the corner I ran against Mr. Clydesdale, the optician, who looks after the library which now occupies the old building.
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Singularly enough it was not the same plan as the Dutch optician's, it was another mode of achieving the same end.
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British Dictionary definitions for optician

optician

/ (ɒpˈtɪʃən) /

noun

: Compare ophthalmologist
- Also called: optometrist a general name used to refer to an ophthalmic optician, a person qualified to examine the eyes and prescribe and supply spectacles and contact lenses
- a general name used to refer to a dispensing optician, a person who supplies and fits spectacle frames but is not qualified to prescribe lenses

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