bifocals

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8

Definition of bifocals

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
    “He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.”

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Etymology

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

Words you can make from bifocals

170 playable · top: BIFOCAL (14 pts)

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6-letter words

6 words

5-letter words

32 words

4-letter words

69 words

3-letter words

44 words

2-letter words

18 words

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