Crossword-Solution: SPECTACLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spectacle | n. | Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock. |
| Spectacle | n. | A spy-glass; a looking-glass. |
| Spectacle | n. | An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. |
| Spectacle | n. | Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “SPECTACLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| something exhibited | 1 answer |
| public event | 1 answer |
| an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale | 1 answer |
| Remarkable thing to see | 1 answer |
| Remarkable display | 1 answer |
| Grand Canyon, for instance. | 1 answer |
| Entertaining sight | 1 answer |
| Dramatic public display | 1 answer |
| THEATRICAL exhibition | 2 answers |
| Cast-of-thousands movie | 2 answers |
| Striking show | 2 answers |
| Quite a sight | 4 answers |
| SCENIC beauty treatment | 9 answers |
| marvel | 13 answers |
| extravaganza | 14 answers |
| Panorama | 19 answers |
| Pageant | 21 answers |
| CIRCUS ___ | 22 answers |
| eyeful | 24 answers |
| pageantry | 25 answers |
| ACT, part of | 27 answers |
| field day | 28 answers |
| Gala | 30 answers |
| Sight | 35 answers |
| Presenta-tion | 49 answers |
| Scene | 51 answers |
| Staging ___ | 52 answers |
| Scenery. | 62 answers |
| View | 65 answers |
| Exhibit | 71 answers |
| Display | 77 answers |
| Show | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPECTACLE (5)
The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage.
But she could hardly get a clear voice for what came instinctively to her lips: “There is little honour to the woman in that speech.” It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.
The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena.
When such personages could constitute a part of the spectacle, without risking the majesty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.
Thou com’st, indeed, 410 As a poor miserable captive thrall Comes to the place where he before had sat Among the prime in splendour, now deposed, Ejected, emptied, gazed, unpitied, shunned, A spectacle of ruin, or of scorn, To all the host of Heaven.
Quotes with SPECTACLE (3)
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.
Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2016).