monologue

• monolog (US, noun)

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːno(ː)ˌlɒɡ/

monologue (plural monologues)

1. (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
2. (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

• (drama): soliloquy

• (antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”): dialogue

• internal monologue, interior monologue

• soliloquy

monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)

1. To deliver a monologue.
   • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices:

     Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

• monologize

• monologic / monological / monologically
• monologuist

Modeled on dialogue, from Middle French monologue, from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.nɔ.lɔɡ/

• Audio:

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monologue m (plural monologues)

1. monologue

• → Azerbaijani: monoloq
• → Dutch: monoloog
  • Afrikaans: monoloog
• → German: Monolog
• → Italian: monologo
• → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
• → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
  • → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
• → Portuguese: monólogo
• → Romanian: monolog
• → Spanish: monólogo
• → Turkish: monolog
• → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)

monologue

1. inflection of monologuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “monologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. soliloquy; monologue

• French: monologue
  • → Azerbaijani: monoloq
  • → Dutch: monoloog
    • Afrikaans: monoloog
  • → German: Monolog
  • → Italian: monologo
  • → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
  • → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
    • → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
  • → Portuguese: monólogo
  • → Romanian: monolog
  • → Spanish: monólogo
  • → Turkish: monolog
  • → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)
• → English: monologue

monologue

1. inflection of monologar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

monologue

1. inflection of monologar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative