eye level

English

Noun

eye level (countable and uncountable, plural eye levels)

1. A level at the height of one's eyes.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers.

   • 1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 407:

     The illuminated diagram is arranged upright, at eye level, in which position it can be seen clearly from the desks of the traffic regulator and station announcer (who also commands a good view of the station platforms).

Translations

a level at the height of one's eyes

Danish: øjenhøjde (da) c German: Augenhöhe (de) f Hungarian: szemmagasság Swedish: ögonhöjd c

References

• “eye level”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.