Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Clipping of monochrome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable
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adj
Clipping of monosexual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable
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adj
Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
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adj
Monoamorous, monogamous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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name
The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
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name
A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
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name
An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.
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name
The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
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name
A town in Ontario.
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name
An island of the Solomon Islands.
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name
A river in Togo.
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noun
A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: wheelie
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noun
A diet where someone eats only one type of food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: eating disorders
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noun
Clipping of monomorphism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Clipping of mononucleosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal
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noun
A monogamous person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.
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noun
A Mono wind.
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noun
A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.
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adjective satellite
designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: monophonic, single-channel
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noun
an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, glandular fever, kissing disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infectious disease
History
Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).
Clipping of monophonic.
Clipping of monoamorous.
Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seem to derive their name from the same common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
