monologue

UK/ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/US/ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/

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Other forms: monologues

A monologue is a long speech by one person alone. An opening monologue, launch into a monologue, an interior monologue.

In the theatre it is a set piece, and in ordinary life it is a complaint about somebody who will not stop. Interior monologue is the novelist's term for thought written down as it runs.

Definitions of monologue

1nounmonologueA long speech by one person alone.B2+
“He answered a simple question with a ten-minute monologue.”

monologue is a speech.

Where it comes from

French monologue was built on the pattern of dialogue from Greek monos, alone, plus logos, speech.

Middle French
monologue
English, today
monologue

Borrowed from Middle French monologue. c. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Medieval Greek μονόλογος. by surface analysis, mono- + -logue.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

monologue in the wild

Comics perform on a stage and deliver humorous and satirical monologues, sometimes incorporating physical acts (act outs).
Stand-up comedy
Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were Monster in a Box, directed by Nick Broomfield, and Gray's Anatomy, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Spalding Gray
Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.
Dramatic monologue
Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, the monologue is frequently quoted.
Tears in rain monologue
The cast and crew's difficulties with Seagal were later echoed on-air by Michaels during guest host Nicolas Cage's monologue in the Season 18 premiere.
List of Saturday Night Live guests

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