EYES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyes mean? 

• EYES (noun)
  The noun EYES has 1 sense:

1. opinion or judgment

  Familiarity information: EYES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Opinion or judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

I was wrong in her eyes

Hypernyms ("eyes" is a kind of...):

opinion; persuasion; sentiment; thought; view (a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty)

 Context examples 

I was about to make some remark to him, when I raised my eyes to the lighted window, and again experienced almost as great a surprise as before.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To Holmes, as I could see by his eager face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read upon the trampled grass.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot shut my eyes but I see those two faces staring at me—staring at me as they stared when my boat broke through the haze.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Bidarshik, who is my son, sits by the fire and listens; and his eyes are very wide and large because of the things he hears.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The lines of his face hardened, and into his eyes came a fighting light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Go for the gold, dear Pisces, as your destiny seems to be shaping up before your eyes.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Sacredam!” he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)