Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that makes lenses and eyeglasses.
  • noun One that sells lenses, eyeglasses, and other optical instruments.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person skilled in the science of optics.
  • noun One who makes or sells optical glasses and instruments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One skilled in optics.
  • noun One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who makes or dispenses lenses, spectacles.
  • noun A person who sells lenses, spectacles etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision

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Examples

  • He was arrested on assault charges -- the optician, that is.

    CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2007 2007

  • If you can see me reading this in a cover letter and saying "interesting" your optician is a miracle worker.

    Archive 2006-10-08 Miss Snark 2006

  • Keep in mind that some online eye stores may call your optician if there are any questions regarding your eye prescription.

    eHow - Health How To's 2010

  • No mathematical instrument maker was to be found in Glasgow, but Watt entered the service of a kind of jack-of-all-trades, who called himself an "optician" and sold and mended spectacles, repaired fiddles, tuned spinets, made fishing-rods and tackle, etc.

    James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877

  • My last two pairs of lenses, both Varilux Comfort, one polarized, one clear, both in unbreakable polycarbonate, with non-reflective coatings, cost US$860 from a small private optician in New England.

    eye glasses 2009

  • My last two pairs of lenses, both Varilux Comfort, one polarized, one clear, both in unbreakable polycarbonate, with non-reflective coatings, cost US$860 from a small private optician in New England.

    eye glasses 2009

  • I was worried that the optician would stand on policy.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • My last two pairs of lenses, both Varilux Comfort, one polarized, one clear, both in unbreakable polycarbonate, with non-reflective coatings, cost US$860 from a small private optician in New England.

    eye glasses 2009

  • I was worried that the optician would stand on policy.

    Generations 2009

  • One's friendly, neighborhood optician occupies a special, trusted place in the pantheon of local commerce.

    All in the Four-Eye Family Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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