monologue

English edit

Alternative forms edit

monolog (US, noun)

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəlɔɡ/
(US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəlɑɡ/

Noun edit

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monologue

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monologue (plural monologues)

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

Synonyms edit

(drama): soliloquy

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of "a monopolizing utterance"): dialogue

Derived terms edit

internal monologue

Translations edit

drama: long speech by one person

Afrikaans: alleenspraak (af), monoloog
Albanian: monolog (sq) m
Arabic: مُونُولُوج m (mūnūlūg), حَدِيث النَّفْس m (ḥadīṯ an-nafs)
Armenian: մենախոսություն (hy) (menaxosutʻyun), մոնոլոգ (hy) (monolog)
Bashkir: монолог (monolog)
Belarusian: манало́г m (manalóh), маналёг m (manaljóh)
Bulgarian: моноло́г (bg) m (monológ)
Catalan: monòleg m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獨白／独白 (zh) (dúbái)
Czech: monolog (cs) m
Danish: monolog c
Dutch: monoloog (nl) m, alleenspraak (nl) f
Estonian: monoloog
Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
French: monologue (fr) m
Galician: monólogo m
Georgian: მონოლოგი (monologi)
German: Monolog (de) m, Selbstgespräch (de) n
Greek: μονόλογος (el) m (monólogos)
Hebrew: מוֹנוֹלוֹג (he) m (monológ)
Hindi: एकालाप m (ekālāp), आत्मभाषण m (ātmabhāṣaṇ)
Hungarian: monológ (hu)
Italian: monologo (it) m
Japanese: 独白 (ja) (どくはく, dokuhaku), 独話 (どくわ, dokuwa), モノローグ (monorōgu)
Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
Korean: 독백(獨白) (ko) (dokbaek), 모놀로그 (monollogeu)
Kyrgyz: монолог (monolog)
Latvian: monologs m
Lithuanian: monologas (lt) m
Macedonian: монолог m (monolog)
Maori: kupu whaiaroaro, whaikī tōtahi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: monolog m

Nynorsk: monolog m
Persian: تک‌گویی (fa) (tak-gui), مونولوگ (monolôg)
Polish: monolog (pl) m
Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m
Romanian: monolog (ro) n
Russian: моноло́г (ru) m (monológ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: моно̀лог m

Roman: monòlog (sh) m
Slovak: monológ m
Slovene: samogovor m, monolog m
Spanish: monólogo (es) m
Swedish: monolog (sv) c
Tagalog: sariusap
Thai: บทพูดเดี่ยว
Turkish: monolog (tr)
Ukrainian: моноло́г m (monolóh)
Vietnamese: độc ngữ (獨語)
Yiddish: מאָנאָלאָג m (monolog)

comedy: long series of stories and jokes

Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
Japanese: 漫談 (ja) (mandan) (Japanese modernism), 落語 (ja) (rakugo) (Japanese tradition)
Polish: monolog (pl) m
Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m
Russian: моноло́г (ru) m (monológ)

monopolizing utterance

Afrikaans: monoloog
Catalan: monòleg m
Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
Maori: kupu whaiaroaro
Polish: monolog (pl) m
Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m

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Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} monologue (fr) m
Italian: ^{(please verify)} monologo (it) m
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} yekbêjî (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} monolog (ku) f

Verb edit

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

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.