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means The bony, cup-shaped cavity in the skull that holds and protects the eyeball along with its muscles, nerves, and fat.

from 'Eye' traces back to Old English 'ēage,' an ancient word shared across Germanic languages for the organ of sight. 'Socket' comes from Old French 'soket,' a diminutive of 'soc' meaning plowshare — originally referring to the pointed, hollow part of a plow blade, later borrowed by English to describe any hollow fitting that holds something snugly in place, from candle sockets to, eventually, the hollow in the skull cradling the eye.