monologue

• monolog (American, noun)

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”).

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.

• (drama): soliloquy

• (a monopolizing utterance): dialogue

• soliloquy

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.

• monologize

• monologic / monological / monologically
• monologuist

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.nɔ.lɔɡ/

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monologue m (plural monologues)

1. monologue

monologue

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

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

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. soliloquy; monologue

monologue

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

monologue

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