name · noun · verb · 27 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
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noun
Meaning 10
A student leader in a class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong, Singapore, archaic
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noun
Meaning 11
A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 12
A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 13
A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 14
A monitor nozzle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 15
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
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noun
Meaning 16
An ironclad warship with a low freeboard and a rotating turret.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 17
A modern shallow-draft warship for coastal bombardment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 18
To watch over; to guard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268, A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.
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noun
Meaning 19
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: proctor
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Broader terms: supervisor
Narrower terms: invigilator
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verb
Meaning 26
keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
we are monitoring the air quality
the police monitor the suspect's moves
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Synonyms: supervise
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Broader terms: observe
Narrower terms: spy, stag, snoop, sleuth
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verb
Meaning 27
check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: observe
History
Etymology
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
Across languages
Translations
226 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
مُرَاقِب
(murāqib)
— someone who watches over something
Arabic:
مُرَاقِبَة
(murāqiba)
— someone who watches over something
Bulgarian:
надзира́тел
(nadzirátel)
— someone who watches over something
Catalan:
monitor
— someone who watches over something
Danish:
overvåge
— someone who watches over something
Danish:
aflytte
— someone who watches over something
Dutch:
toezichthouder
— someone who watches over something
Finnish:
valvoja
— someone who watches over something
Finnish:
tarkkailija
— someone who watches over something
French:
moniteur
— someone who watches over something
French:
monitrice
— someone who watches over something
Galician:
monitor
— someone who watches over something
German:
Aufpasser
— someone who watches over something
German:
Wächter
— someone who watches over something
Greek:
επιτηρητής
(epitiritís)
— someone who watches over something
Hindi:
पर्यवेक्षक
(paryavekṣak)
— someone who watches over something
Hungarian:
felügyelő
— someone who watches over something
Hungarian:
megfigyelő
— someone who watches over something
Hungarian:
ellenőr
— someone who watches over something
Hungarian:
ügyeletes
— someone who watches over something
Māori:
monita
— someone who watches over something
Norman:
monniteu
— someone who watches over something
Iranian Persian:
مُبْصِر
(mobser)
— someone who watches over something
Portuguese:
monitor
— someone who watches over something
Portuguese:
observador
— someone who watches over something
Romanian:
monitor
— someone who watches over something
Russian:
наста́вник
(nastávnik)
— someone who watches over something
Russian:
наста́вница
(nastávnica)
— someone who watches over something
Russian:
надзира́тель
(nadzirátelʹ)
— someone who watches over something
Russian:
надзира́тельница
(nadzirátelʹnica)
— someone who watches over something
Serbo-Croatian:
рѐда̄р
— someone who watches over something
Serbo-Croatian:
rèdār
— someone who watches over something
Spanish:
monitor
— someone who watches over something
Swedish:
övervakare
— someone who watches over something
Ukrainian:
спостеріга́ч
(sposteriháč)
— someone who watches over something
