mono

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒn.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.noʊ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːnoː/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒnəʊ
• Hyphenation: mon‧o

Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).

mono (countable and uncountable, plural monos)

1. (slang, UK, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.

   Synonym: wheelie

2. (eating disorders) A diet where someone eats only one type of food.

   plum mono ― plums-only diet (typically for a day)

3. (category theory) Clipping of monomorphism.
4. (pathology, informal, uncountable) Clipping of mononucleosis.
5. (informal, countable) Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.

• monic

mono (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of monochrome.
   • 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 4, page 125:

     The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.

2. (informal) Clipping of monosexual.

   Coordinate terms: bi, pan

   • 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, →ISBN:

     People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

   • 2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 37:

     That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]

Clipping of monophonic.

mono (not comparable)

2. (informal) Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

   Coordinate term: stereo

   Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

Clipping of monoamorous.

mono (comparative more mono, superlative most mono)

1. (informal) Monoamorous, monogamous.

   Coordinate term: poly

mono (plural monos)

1. (informal) A monogamous person.
   • 2010, Leonie Linssen, Love Unlimited: The Joys and Challenges of Open Relationships:

     For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned.

• mono no aware
• mono wind

• Moon, OMON, moon, nomo-

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mono m (plural monos)

1. monkey

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mono”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

mono

1. medicine, drug

Borrowed from French monnaie and English money, both from Latin monēta (“money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmono/

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: mo‧no

mono (accusative singular monon, plural monoj, accusative plural monojn)

1. money

   La novgeedzoj devas ŝpareme vivi kiam ili savas sufiĉan monon por aĉeti domon.

   The newlyweds must live frugally as they save enough money to purchase a house.

• nomo, omon

• IPA^(key): /ˈmono/, [ˈmo̞no̞]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧no

From a trademark "Mono", registered in 1932 by Lahden Saapas- ja Lapikasteollisuus O.Y, since 1943 Mono Oy. The name, suggested by Arkki Laine, was chosen as result of a contest. The winner justified the name by explaining that it came from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “unique”), which described the positioning of the skiing shoes of the firm on the market. Additionally, the founder of the firm was Jussi Mononen.

mono

1. (genericized trademark) ski boot
2. (slang, by extension) shoe

• (skiing shoe): hiihtokenkä

• “1. mono”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Clipping of monofoninen (“monophonic”).

mono

1. mono (having only a single audio channel)

   Synonym: monofoninen

• “2. mono”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• moon

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.no/

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Clipping of monophonique.

mono (plural monos)

1. monophonic, monaural

Clipping of moniteur + -o.

mono m (plural monos)

1. (informal) supervisor, leader (in a camp)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmono/ [ˈmõ.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ono

Unknown.

mono (feminine mona, masculine plural monos, feminine plural monas)

1. hornless

   Synonyms: mouco, fanado

Borrowed from Spanish mono.

mono m (plural monos)

1. monkey

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mono”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mono”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mono”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mono (invariable)

1. single (of one part)

mono (invariable)

1. (relational) mono

• -nomo, nomo, nomò

mono

1. Rōmaji transcription of もの
2. Rōmaji transcription of モノ

mono

1. clipping of monofonisks

mono f (invariable)

1. clipping of monofonija

Borrowed from Bangi mono.

mono

1. medicine, drug

Borrowed from Bangi bono.

mono

1. to see

Uncertain, but probably borrowed from or related to Spanish mono.

mono m (plural monos)

1. ape
2. (figuratively) lazy or ugly person
3. (figuratively) deadstock
4. (figuratively) bulky waste

• “mono”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mono”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Haplographically from maimón (“monkey”), from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon, mandrill”). Compare English monkey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmono/ [ˈmo.no]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: mo‧no

mono (feminine mona, masculine plural monos, feminine plural monas, superlative monísimo)

1. (Spain, colloquial) cute, pretty

   Synonym: cuqui

   Near-synonym: bonito

2. (Colombia, colloquial) blond, blonde

   Synonym: rubio

mono m (plural monos, feminine mona, feminine plural monas)

1. monkey

   Synonyms: chango, maimón, mico, simio, (Louisiana) macaco

2. boiler suit, coveralls, overall, onesie (a one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour)

   Synonyms: mono de trabajo, mameluco, braga, buzo, overol

3. jumpsuit, overalls (a one-piece item of clothing originally by parachutists)
4. jumpsuit (a female one-piece item of clothing)
5. (Chile, Peru) tracksuit, joggers (garment consisting of a top and trousers for sports and casual wear)

   Synonyms: buzo, chándal

6. (Costa Rica, slang) vagina, vulva
7. (Mexico, Chile) doll, puppet

   Synonym: muñeco

8. (colloquial) withdrawal symptom

   Synonym: síndrome de abstinencia

   estar con el mono ― to have withdrawal symptoms

• “mono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “mono”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “mono”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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