Meaning

1 senses

  1. To speak in or deliver a monologue.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. Donald snuck onto an empty set and started to practice his monologue.

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  2. Donald needs to get ready for his monologue.

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  3. A person's silent discussion with themselves is called "inner monologue".

    deEin lautloses Gespräch eines Menschen mit sich selbst nennt man „innerer Monolog“. — al_ex_an_der

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  4. Gabriel started his monologue.

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  5. I'm working on my monologue.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ult

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

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Forms

monologues, monologuing, monologued, monologued
Base formmonologue · to monologue
3rd person singularmonologues
Present participlemonologuing
Past simplemonologued
Past participlemonologued

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymonologue
he, she, itmonologues

Past simpleLesson

all personsmonologued

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave monologued
he, she, ithas monologued

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill monologue

Synonyms

1 synonyms
monologize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
monolingualmonolithmonolithicmonopolizemonopolymonosyllabic
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