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
Knowing or using a single language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: monolingual
Antonyms: multilingual, plurilingual
noun
A person who understands only one language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h1óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni-der. English uni- Latin linguālislbor. English lingual English unilingual From uni- + lingual.
