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optician
(ɒptɪʃən)
Word forms: plural opticians
1. countable noun
An optician is someone whose job involves testing people's sight, and making or selling glasses and contact lenses.
2. countable noun
An optician or an optician's is a shop where you can have your eyes tested and buy glasses and contact lenses.
Some may need specialist treatment at the optician's.
optician in British English
(ɒpˈtɪʃən)
noun
a. Also called: optometrist
a general name used to refer to an ophthalmic optician, a person qualified to examine the eyes and prescribe and supply spectacles and contact lenses
b.
Compare ophthalmologista general name used to refer to a dispensing optician, a person who supplies and fits spectacle frames but is not qualified to prescribe lenses
optician in American English
(ɑpˈtɪʃən)
noun
a person who makes or deals in optical instruments, esp. one who prepares and dispenses eyeglasses
Word origin
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British English: optician /ɒpˈtɪʃən/ NOUN
An optician is someone whose job involves testing people's eyesight and making and selling glasses and contact lenses.
- American English: optician
- Arabic: نَظَّارَاتِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: oftalmologista
- Chinese: 配镜师
- Croatian: optičar
- Czech: optik
- Danish: optiker
- Dutch: opticien
- European Spanish: oculista
- Finnish: optikko
- French: opticien
- German: Optiker
- Greek: οπτικός
- Italian: oculista
- Japanese: 眼鏡士
- Korean: 안경사
- Norwegian: optiker
- Polish: optyk
- European Portuguese: oftalmologista
- Romanian: oftalmolog
- Russian: оптик
- Latin American Spanish: oculista
- Swedish: optiker
- Thai: ผู้มีคุณสมบัติที่จะตรวจ ออกใบวัดและขายอุปกรณ์เกี่ยวกับสายตา
- Turkish: gözlükçü
- Ukrainian: оптик
- Vietnamese: người làm và bán đồ quang học
Chinese translation of 'optician'
optician
(ɔpˈtɪʃən)
n (c)
- (= person)
眼镜(鏡)商
(yǎnjìngshāng) (个(個), gè) - (also optician's)
眼镜(鏡)店
(yǎnjìngdiàn) (家, jiā)
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- hedger
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- hedge-school
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- hedge someone in
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- hedge trimmer