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語源

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈmoːno(ː)ˌlɒɡ/

名詞

monologue (plural monologues)

1. (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
2. (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

同意語

• (drama): soliloquy

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”): dialogue

派生語

参考

• soliloquy

動詞

monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)

1. To deliver a monologue.
   • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices:

     Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

同意語

• monologize

派生語

• monologic / monological / monologically
• monologuist