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Long speech by one actor
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monologue
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In theatre , a monologue (from Greek μονόλογος from μόνος mónos , "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos , "speech") is a speech presented by a single character , most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a rambling monologue EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Continuity is just as important in dialogue as in monologue . ▪ He holds his translation of the laibon's monologue . ▪ His only mode of conversation was the monologue , and his ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monologue \Mon"o*logue\, n. [F. monologue, Gr. ? speaking alone; mo`nos alone, single, sole + lo`gos speech, discourse, le`gein to speak. See Legend .] A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "long speech by one person," from French monologue , from Late Greek monologos "speaking alone," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + logos "speech, word," from legein "to speak" (see lecture (n.)).
Usage examples of monologue.
Indeed, in one of his acidic, if antic, moods, Robbie told us Tuohey had delivered a fairly entertaining monologue about why liquor was a more dependable companion than a woman.
Or was it his artsy friend, Philippe, in one of those tongue-in-cheek, swaggering monologues of his?
Angela realized the conversation had lapsed into a monologue, to which Kit was responding in blandly neutral terms.
I was bored with the endless monologue of numbers and rationalizations in my head.
I told him, in the midst of some rambling solipsistic monologue, about my inheritance and the mixture of comfort and paralysis I felt whenever I thought of it.
There is a stenographic record of a monologue of his at headquarters on May 3, 1942.
Kenny began a long, cornpone monologue on the values of education and the joys of philanthropy.
Grayson did her monologue in the first half of the show, coming on a bare stage in the tightly focused beam of a spotlight, wearing her black hat, a black corselette, showing the white skin of her upper thighs above dark stockings held up by red garters.
The lady consented, and proceeded to what she took to be a consultation, which in reality was a monologue.
Rushton continued his monologue throughout the rescue, occasionally referring to Scamp as a dustbin and a lapdog, expressions that he accompanied with a grin at Selina.
During this rapid monologue I could not get in a single word, and on attentively scanning his features I could only recollect that I had seen him before, but when or where or how I knew not.
It was even thought that one could detect cries, sobs, and the monologues of a madman addressing phantoms, some mysterious rendering of worship to the dead who haunted him.
He apologized, haltingly at first, and then in an increasingly frantic, semicoherent monologue.
And in the monologue malls and choric alleys of London West the screamers sing and the singers scream.
It completely ignored, almost totally forgot, its own interpersonal dimension, the dimension of dialogical and intersubjective communication, in favor of the merely monological and objectifying mode, which is also a very hyperagentic mode, in that the communions of inter subjectivity are ditched in favor of the monologues of individual power and agency.