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

Though her reading glasses and a cold cup of tea sit in her office, Michael’s wife Sarah (Hollie Bailey), a music teacher, is nowhere to be found. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 July 2026

Kalita says for her family, getting reading glasses was simply too complicated and expensive. — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 11 July 2026

The crew will be carrying green bags containing their suit helmets, gloves, communication caps, and any last-minute personal items such as reading glasses. — Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026

In Ray’s bare-bones house, spotless and white and lacking any of the familiar comforts that make Colin’s life with his parents so cozy, there is a guy who reads contemporary auto-fiction who needs little reading glasses to do so. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026

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