Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈspek.tə.kl̩/
ÖversättningUttal
Substantiv
1.skådespel {ett}
  • Uttal
2.utställning {en}
  • Uttal
3.föreställning {en}
  • Uttal
4.tillställning {en}
5.tilldragelse
6.anblick {en}
7.spektakel {ett}
  • Uttal
8.åtlöje
9.glasögon {ett}
  • Uttal

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. 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
  2. An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
  3. An embarrassing situation
  4. (usually, in the plural) 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.
  5. (figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
  6. (obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
  7. The brille of a snake.

Exempel

  • With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts. / In open market-place produced they me, / To be a public spectacle to all: (Shakespeare, Henry VI, del 1, akt 1, scen 4)
    • Med spott och spe och skymf och kränkningar. / På öppna torg man förde mig ikring / Som ett spektakel inför allmänheten. (Översättning av Carl August Hagberg)
  • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • He made a spectacle out of himself
  • Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.

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