Usually means: Cavity holding and protecting eyeball.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word eye socket:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. eye socket: Merriam-Webster
  2. eye socket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eye socket: Collins English Dictionary
  4. eye socket: Vocabulary.com
  5. eye-socket: Wordnik
  6. eye socket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. eye-socket, eye socket: Wiktionary
  8. eye socket: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. eye socket: Dictionary.com
  10. Eye socket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. eye socket: Rhymezone
  12. eye socket: FreeDictionary.org
  13. eye socket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. eye socket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eye socket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. eye socket: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. eye socket: Medical dictionary

(Note: See eye_sockets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (eye socket)

noun:  (anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.

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