monologue
See also: monologué
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
First 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/
- (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɑnəlɑɡ/
Noun edit
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
Translations edit
drama: long speech by one person
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comedy: long series of stories and jokes
monopolizing utterance
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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.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Modeled on dialogue, from Middle French monologue, from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
monologue 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 edit
monologue
- inflection of monologuer:
Further reading edit
- “monologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Noun edit
monologue m (plural monologues)
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
monologue
- inflection of monologar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
monologue
- inflection of monologar:
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