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monolingual
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monolingual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a monolingual dictionary (=written in only one language)
▪ Monolingual dictionaries tend to have more examples than bilingual ones.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a monolingual dictionary
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost all classroom activity was oral and monolingual in the second language.
▪ In a monolingual situation, films with subtitles in the national language may be available on video.
▪ In addition, the linguistic needs of monolingual pupils should be given separate consideration.
▪ Same room, same seat, minutes later, with a monolingual foreign actor and an interpreter.
▪ There is therefore an increased possibility that monolingual teachers will find themselves in linguistically diverse classrooms.
▪ They are more often than not monolingual and monocultural and, as language teachers, in a position of power.
▪ This approach to language learning is suitable for monolingual groups.
▪ Variation and Identity One of the chief foci of sociolinguistic interest in monolingual speakers is variation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
monolingual

monolingual \mon`o*lin"gual\ adj. Using or knowing only one language; as, monolingual speakers; a monolingual dictionary. Opposite of multilingual.

Wiktionary
monolingual

a. knowing or using a single language. n. A person who knows or uses only a single language; a monoglot.

WordNet
monolingual

adj. using or knowing only one language; "monolingual speakers"; "a monolingual dictionary" [ant: multilingual]

Usage examples of "monolingual".

English around their children because they feel that monolingual English speakers have an advantage.

Only in monolingual single-culture business interactions is it reasonable to assume that everyone involved will roughly agree on what is presupposed and what must be explained.

The New York publishing scene makes almost no allowance for bringing gifted European and Asian genre writers to the attention of the American reading public and the monolingual status of most of us Americans will keep us ignorant of the existence of these writers.

And Yo was running, like the mad, into the safety of her first tongue, where the proudly monolingual John could not catch her, even if he tried.

In less than a millenium, English has changed so vastly that a modern German or Scandinavian, sent back in time to the days of Chaucer, would understand more than a monolingual Britisher or American.

Several times Krishna turned to say something in Bengali, and the boy would reply and I would curse myself for being a monolingual moron.

This would be my first attempt at conducting a true monolingual discovery procedure.

Several times Krishna turned to say something in Bengali, and the boy would reply and I would curse myself for being a monolingual moron.