monologue

• monolog (US, noun)

[circa 1550] From circa 1500 borrowing of Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “speaking alone”).

monologue (plural monologues)

1. (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
2. (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

• (drama): soliloquy

• (a monopolizing utterance): dialogue

• soliloquy

monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)

1. To deliver a monologue.
   • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices

     Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

• monologize

• monologic / monological
• monologuist

Modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. monologue

monologue

1. first-person singular present indicative of monologuer
2. third-person singular present indicative of monologuer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of monologuer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of monologuer
5. second-person singular imperative of monologuer

• “monologue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. soliloquy; monologue

monologue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of monologar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of monologar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of monologar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of monologar

monologue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of monologar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of monologar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of monologar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of monologar.