monologue

monologue

See also: monologué

English

Alternative forms

• monolog (American, noun)

Etymology

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”).

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.

Synonyms

• (drama): soliloquy

Antonyms

• (a monopolizing utterance): dialogue

Translations

drama: long speech by one person

Albanian: monolog (sq) m Arabic: مُونُولُوج‎ m (mūnūlūg), حَدِيث النَّفْس‎ m (ḥadīṯ an-nafs) Armenian: մենախոսություն (hy) (menaxosutʿyun), մոնոլոգ (hy) (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) Korean: 독백(獨白) (ko) (dokbaek), 모놀로그 (monollogeu) 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 (monolōg) 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 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

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

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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

See also

• soliloquy

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.

Synonyms

• monologize

Derived terms

• monologic / monological / monologically
• monologuist

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French

Etymology

Modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.nɔ.lɔɡ/

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Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. monologue

Verb

monologue

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

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. soliloquy; monologue

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Portuguese

Verb

monologue

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

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Spanish

Verb

monologue

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