# monologue
## English
### Alternative forms

* monolog (US, noun)

### Etymology

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/

### Noun

monologue (plural monologues)
* (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
* (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
* A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

#### Synonyms

* (drama): soliloquy

#### Antonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* internal monologue, interior monologue

#### Translations

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#### See also

* soliloquy

### Verb

monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)
* 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

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔ.nɔ.lɔɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)
* monologue

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: monoloq
* → Dutch: monoloog
** Afrikaans: monoloog
* → German: Monolog
* → Italian: monologo
* → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
* → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
** → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
* → Portuguese: monólogo
* → Romanian: monolog
* → Spanish: monólogo
* → Turkish: monolog
* → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)

### Verb

monologue
* inflection of monologuer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

### Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)
* soliloquy; monologue

#### Descendants

* French: monologue
** → Azerbaijani: monoloq
** → Dutch: monoloog
*** Afrikaans: monoloog
** → German: Monolog
** → Italian: monologo
** → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
** → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
*** → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
** → Portuguese: monólogo
** → Romanian: monolog
** → Spanish: monólogo
** → Turkish: monolog
** → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)
* → English: monologue

## Portuguese
### Verb

monologue
* inflection of monologar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

monologue
* inflection of monologar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative