noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
General-American:/ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/
General-American, cot-caught-merger:/ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
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CMU ARPABET:M AA1 N AH0 L AO2 G
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos)der. Middle French monologueder. ▲ Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- English -logue English monologue First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos). By surface analysis, mono- + -logue.
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
alleenspraak
— long speech by one person
Afrikaans:
monoloog
— long speech by one person
Albanian:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Arabic:
مُونُولُوج
(mūnūlūg)
— long speech by one person
Arabic:
حَدِيث النَّفْس
(ḥadīṯ an-nafs)
— long speech by one person
Armenian:
մենախոսություն
(menaxosutʻyun)
— long speech by one person
Armenian:
մոնոլոգ
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Bashkir:
монолог
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Belarusian:
манало́г
(manalóh)
— long speech by one person
Belarusian:
маналёг
(manaljóh)
— long speech by one person
Bulgarian:
моноло́г
(monológ)
— long speech by one person
Catalan:
monòleg
— long speech by one person
Chinese Mandarin:
獨白 /独白
(dúbái)
— long speech by one person
Czech:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Danish:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Dutch:
monoloog
— long speech by one person
Dutch:
alleenspraak
— long speech by one person
Estonian:
monoloog
— long speech by one person
Finnish:
monologi
— long speech by one person
Finnish:
yksinpuhelu
— long speech by one person
French:
monologue
— long speech by one person
Galician:
monólogo
— long speech by one person
Georgian:
მონოლოგი
(monologi)
— long speech by one person
German:
Monolog
— long speech by one person
German:
Selbstgespräch
— long speech by one person
Greek:
μονόλογος
(monólogos)
— long speech by one person
Hebrew:
מוֹנוֹלוֹג
(monológ)
— long speech by one person
Hindi:
एकालाप
(ekālāp)
— long speech by one person
Hindi:
आत्मभाषण
(ātmabhāṣaṇ)
— long speech by one person
Hungarian:
monológ
— long speech by one person
Indonesian:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Indonesian:
swacakap
— long speech by one person
Italian:
monologo
— long speech by one person
Japanese:
独白
(dokuhaku)
— long speech by one person
Japanese:
独話
(dokuwa)
— long speech by one person
Japanese:
モノローグ
(monorōgu)
— long speech by one person
Kazakh:
монолог
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Korean:
독백
(dokbaek)
— long speech by one person
Korean:
모놀로그
(monollogeu)
— long speech by one person
Kyrgyz:
монолог
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Latvian:
monologs
— long speech by one person
Lithuanian:
monologas
— long speech by one person
Macedonian:
монолог
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Māori:
kupu whaiaroaro
— long speech by one person
Māori:
whaikī tōtahi
— long speech by one person
Norwegian Bokmål:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Norwegian Nynorsk:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Persian:
تکگویی
(tak-gui)
— long speech by one person
Persian:
مونولوگ
(monolôg)
— long speech by one person
Polish:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Portuguese:
monólogo
— long speech by one person
Romanian:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Russian:
моноло́г
(monológ)
— long speech by one person
Serbo-Croatian:
моно̀лог
— long speech by one person
Serbo-Croatian:
monòlog
— long speech by one person
Slovak:
monológ
— long speech by one person
Slovene:
samogovor
— long speech by one person
Slovene:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Spanish:
monólogo
— long speech by one person
Swedish:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Tagalog:
sariusap
— long speech by one person
Thai:
บทพูดเดี่ยว
— long speech by one person
Turkish:
monolog
— long speech by one person
Ukrainian:
моноло́г
(monolóh)
— long speech by one person
Vietnamese:
độc ngữ
— long speech by one person
Yiddish:
מאָנאָלאָג
(monolog)
— long speech by one person
Finnish:
monologi
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Finnish:
yksinpuhelu
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Indonesian:
monolog
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Indonesian:
komika
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Japanese:
漫談
(mandan)
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Japanese:
落語
(rakugo)
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Polish:
monolog
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Portuguese:
monólogo
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
Russian:
моноло́г
(monológ)
— comedy: long series of stories and jokes
