reading glasses

English

Reading glasses

Noun

reading glasses pl (plural only)

1. Any type of spectacles intended chiefly to deal with the effects of presbyopia by magnifying details such as fine text.

   Synonym: readers

Translations

spectacles to deal with the effects of presbyopia

• Arabic: نظارة طبية
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老花鏡／老花镜 (lou⁵ faa¹ geng³), 老花眼鏡／老花眼镜 (lou⁵ faa¹ ngaan⁵ geng^3-2)

  Hokkien: 老人目鏡／老人目镜 (lāu-lâng ba̍k-kiàⁿ), 老人鏡／老人镜 (lāu-lâng-kiàⁿ), 花鏡／花镜 (hoe-kiàⁿ)

  Mandarin: 老花鏡／老花镜 (zh) (lǎohuājìng), 花鏡／花镜 (zh) (huājìng), 老花眼鏡／老花眼镜 (lǎohuā yǎnjìng)

• Danish: læsebriller
• Dutch: leesbril (nl) m
• Estonian: lugemisprillid pl
• Finnish: lukulasit (fi) pl
• French: lunettes de lecture (fr) f pl
• German: Lesebrille (de) f
• Hungarian: olvasószemüveg (hu)
• Italian: occhiali da lettura m pl, occhiali per leggere m pl
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 돋보기 안경 (dotbogi an'gyeong), 돋보기 (ko) (dotbogi)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: nákʼee sinilí áháníjįʼ bee hootʼínígíí
• Polish: okulary do czytania pl
• Romanian: ochelari de citit m pl
• Russian: очки́ для чте́ния pl (očkí dlja čténija)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: anteojos para leer m pl, gafas para leer f pl, gafas de lectura f pl
• Swedish: läsglasögon (sv) n pl
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: kính đọc sách

Further reading

• reading glasses on Wikipedia.Wikipedia