🇬🇧🇪🇸 eyeball - globo ocular : English Lesson

Meaning of "eyeball" ("globo ocular"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

An eyeball is the big, round, squishy part of your eye that rolls around inside your eye socket. It’s like a tiny camera that lets you see the world. It has cool parts like the colorful iris, the black dot called the pupil, and it’s always busy looking at stuff—unless you’re asleep, of course.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My cat gave me the biggest eyeball stare after I accidentally stepped on his tail — oops!

I tried to wink, but both my eyeballs decided to blink instead.

Mom said, “Don’t roll your eyeballs at me,” but I wasn’t even rolling — I think they just wobbled.

I saw a spider on the wall, and my eyeballs decided to open twice as wide for maximum panic mode.

Dad says my eyeballs get sparkly when I see pizza. I say that’s just science.

At dawn, a child pressed her face to the glass. One eyeball, then the other eyeball, peered into the garden. A fox's bright eyeball met hers. She smiled; her eyeball sparkled with hope. The fox blinked its eyeball slowly, then trotted away. The child's eyeball kept watching the path, calm and happy.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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