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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
Pertaining to or based on a single basic idea or principle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Describing a classification that is defined by the presence of all of a set of attributes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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History
Etymology tree Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English monothetic From mono- + Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “position, arrangement”) + English -ic.
