English-French translations for spectacle

• spectacle
  L’Europe, ce n’est pas un spectacle quotidien et de grandes révolutions. Europe is not a matter of daily spectacle and major revolutions.
  Monsieur le Président, quel spectacle humiliant! Mr President, this is actually something of a humiliating spectacle.
  Nous offrons là à l'opinion publique un spectacle dont nous devrions nous abstenir. We should not be presenting the public with a spectacle of that kind.

Definition of spectacle

• An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc
• An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation
• 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
• A spyglass; a looking-glass
• 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

Synonyms

• pageant

Examples

• The horse race was a thrilling spectacle.
• He made a spectacle out of himself

Related words

• bespectacled
• spectacles
• spectacled
• superspectacle
• unspectacled
• unbespectacled
• spectacle wearer
• spectacle case
• Spectacled Duck