Definitions for monologue

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monologue mon·o·logue

Spelling: [mon-uh-lawg, -log]

IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg/

Monologue is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in monologue (eglmnooou).

Definitions for monologue

noun

1. a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker:
2. a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.
3. any composition, as a poem, in which a single person speaks alone.
4. a part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone; soliloquy.

Origin of monologue

1615-25; French, on the model of dialogue dialogue; compare Greek monólogos speaking alone

Examples for monologue

I was shaving during this monologue of Mammy's, with my back to her.

I never watch television," he says, then corrects himself: "Well, sometimes Carson's monologue.

Gil took weeks to build a monologue, skillfully turning the words on their head.

Still the only reply to his monologue was the chugging of the engine.

We shake hands and he immediately begins a monologue about prison breaks and South America.

Conversation during the meal was, for the most part, a monologue by the captain.

Boylexe is a spin-off of a show about women in burlesque called Burlexe, which likewise mixes striptease, monologue, and song.

At last there was a lull in the monologue and I arose and said I must be going.

“Stephen Colbert is here, ladies and gentlemen,” Letterman said during his monologue.

Mame punctuates this monologue with a regular and excusable "My land!"