sunglasses

[suhn-glas-iz, -glah-siz]

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plural noun

eyeglasses with colored or tinted lenses that protect the eyes from the glare of sunlight.

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Origin of sunglasses

1800–10; sun + glasses

sunglass

[suhn-glas, -glahs]

noun

burning glass.

Origin of sunglass

First recorded in 1800–10; sun + glass

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Examples from the Web for sunglasses

You should not be seen on streets, but in airports, in big coats and sunglasses.
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He sat at the witness table disguised in a baseball cap and sunglasses, with a blue hoodie over his head.
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To congratulate him on his victory, Abdullah gave his little brother an expensive rubber safety band for his Ray Ban sunglasses.
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Rocking a man-tank, sunglasses, and sultry pout, Billy Ray looks both embarrassingly excited to be included and super confused.
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And then someone went out to the car and brought in a box with what looked to me like twenty-five or thirty pairs of sunglasses.
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I didn't have any sunglasses on at that time because I had broken them the week before, and I hadn't gotten any new ones.
Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
We wore the silk scarf, sunglasses and rakish hat with a leather Jacket.
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It was a girl whose face was sharp and rodent-like, half-hidden by a giant pair of sunglasses.
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Rations for the night we would spend in the pass, our few remaining blankets, ropes, sunglasses.
The Planet Savers|Marion Zimmer Bradley
He had glasses, because he took them off and put them back on before he left, and they were not sunglasses.
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for sunglasses

sunglasses

pl n

glasses with darkened or polarizing lenses that protect the eyes from the sun's glare

sunglass

noun

a convex lens used to focus the sun's rays and thus produce heat or ignition; burning glass

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Word Origin and History for sunglasses

sunglasses

1917, from sun (n.) + glasses. Earlier sunglass (1804) meant a burning glass.

sunglasses

plural noun

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