reading glasses

plural noun

: eyeglasses used for reading or close work

… each button on the phone has one large number and three tiny letters squeezed about it so you have to squint real hard, especially if you don't have your reading glasses on.

—Dennis Baron

Examples of reading glasses in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One removes one’s reading glasses from one’s pocket and puts them on. —Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025

Use the five compartments to hold everything from sunglasses and reading glasses to necklaces and rings, then roll up the case and bring it in your bag. —Isabel Garcia, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025

Find some reading glasses, pursued by the daughter of an aged patient, left behind in a bedside table. —Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025

There were misplaced reading glasses, which made the Torah recitation — a pressure point in any bar mitzvah — a little bit more fraught. —John Leland, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024

It’s got a three-button closure for a versatile fit, and two hip pockets for holding your phone, remote, reading glasses, or just warming up chilly hands. —Clint Davis, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024

Both Birdie and Garner wore reading glasses in the cute clip. —Angel Saunders, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024

Its compact size even leaves room for other necessities, like water goblets and reading glasses, on your nightstand. —Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024

Earphones, phone, charger, medications, sunglasses, reading glasses, lip gloss, powder, hand sanitizer. —Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reading glasses

• overpasses
• asses
• basses
• brasses
• classes
• fasces
• gases
• gasses
• grasses
• lasses
• maces
• masses