monologue

See also: monologué

English

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Etymology

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”). By surface analysis, mono- +‎ -logue.

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

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Antonyms

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

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Verb

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.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

  1. monologue

Descendants

Verb

monologue

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

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

  1. soliloquy; monologue

Descendants

Portuguese

Verb

monologue

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

Spanish

Verb

monologue

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