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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monologue
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 version of the monologue was declamation.
▪ No one wants a head's rambling, spur of the minute monologue at the end of the day.
▪ Since many excerpts from this long monologue have already been given.
▪ The slow, languid monologue was followed by yips, then by barks, and more howls.
▪ This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour, warmth and trivial monologue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monologue

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.]

  1. A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
    --Dryden.

  2. A dramatic composition for a single performer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monologue

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.)).

Wiktionary
monologue

alt. 1 (context drama English) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person. 2 (context comedy English) A long series of comic story and jokes as an entertainment. 3 A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. n. 1 (context drama English) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person. 2 (context comedy English) A long series of comic story and jokes as an entertainment. 3 A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. vb. To deliver a monologue.

WordNet
monologue
  1. n. speech you make to yourself [syn: soliloquy]

  2. a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)

  3. a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor

Wikipedia
Monologue

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 character or the audience. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media ( plays, films, etc.), as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies, apostrophes, and aside. There are, however, distinctions between each of these devices.

Monologue (album)

Monologue is the second full Length album by the Hungarian rock band The Idoru. The album was released in 2006.

Monologue (film)

Monologue (, translit. Monolog) is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Ilya Averbakh. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.

Monologue (disambiguation)

A Monologue is an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama. It can also refer to:

  • Monologue (album), a 2006 alternative rock album
  • Monologue (film), a 1972 Soviet film

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.