monologue
See also: monologué
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFirst attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑnəlɔɡ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɑnəlɑɡ/
Noun
editmonologue (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
editTranslations
editdrama: long speech by one person
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comedy: long series of stories and jokes
monopolizing utterance
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See also
editVerb
editmonologue (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.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editModeled on dialogue, from Middle French monologue, from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmonologue m (plural monologues)
Descendants
edit- → 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
- → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)
Verb
editmonologue
- inflection of monologuer:
Further reading
edit- “monologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Noun
editmonologue m (plural monologues)
Descendants
editPortuguese
editVerb
editmonologue
- inflection of monologar:
Spanish
editVerb
editmonologue
- inflection of monologar:
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