"eyedrop" meaning in English

See eyedrop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: eyedrops [plural]
Etymology: eye + drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”). Etymology templates: {{com|en|eye|drop}} eye + drop, {{cog|fy|eachdrip|lit=eyedrop|t=tear}} West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), {{cog|nl|oogdrup|lit=eyedrop|t=tear}} Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), {{cog|de|Augentropfen|t=eyedrops}} German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} eyedrop (plural eyedrops)
  1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes. Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (eye medicine): ⁧قَطْرَة عَيْن⁩ (qaṭrat ʕayn) [feminine] (Arabic), ⁧قَطْرة⁩ (gaṭra) [Hijazi-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), ⁧قَطْرة عين⁩ (gaṭrat ʕēn) [Hijazi-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), ⁧تقطيرة العين⁩ (taqṭīrat el-ʕayn, taqṭīrat el-ʕīn) [Moroccan-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), 眼藥水 (Chinese Cantonese), 眼药水 (ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi²) (Chinese Cantonese), 眼藥水 (Chinese Mandarin), 眼药水 (yǎnyàoshuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), oční kapky [feminine, plural] (Czech), øjendråber [plural] (Danish), silmätippa (Finnish), gouttes oculaires [feminine, plural] (French), Augentropfen [masculine] (German), szemcsepp (Hungarian), collirio (Italian), 目薬 (megusuri) (Japanese), 안약 (anyak) (Korean), 目藥水 (Min Nan Chinese), 目药水 (ba̍k-io̍h-chúi) (Min Nan Chinese), colírio [masculine] (Portuguese), colirio [masculine] (Spanish), pamasla (Tagalog), göz damlası (Turkish), logatof (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-eyedrop-en-noun-ISy2toaL Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'eye medicine': 100 0
  2. (poetic) A tear. Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-eyedrop-en-noun-lyDQaLJY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eye-drop, eye drop Hypernyms: drop

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
      "word": "silmätippa"
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "eye medicine",
      "word": "collirio"
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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      "sense": "eye medicine",
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    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "eye medicine",
      "word": "göz damlası"
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