Usually means: Display designed to attract attention.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. spectacle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spectacle: Merriam-Webster
  3. spectacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spectacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spectacle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spectacle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spectacle, spectacle: Wordnik
  8. spectacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spectacle: Wiktionary
  10. spectacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spectacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spectacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spectacle: Dictionary.com
  14. spectacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spectacle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spectacle (Situationism), Spectacle (band), Spectacle (critical theory), Spectacle (disambiguation), Spectacle (software), Spectacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spectacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spectacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spectacle: Rhymezone
  20. spectacle, spectacle (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spectacle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. spectacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spectacle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spectacle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spectacle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spectacle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spectacle: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spectacle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spectacles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
noun:  An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
noun:  The brille of a snake.
noun:  (rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.

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