Monologue
['mɒn(ə)lɒg] or ['mɑnəlɔɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor.
(noun.) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation).
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A dramatic composition for a single performer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Soliloquy.
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Definition
n. a speech uttered by one person: soliloquy: a poem &c. for a single performer.—v.i. Monol′ogise to indulge in this.—ns. Monol′ogist one who talks in monologue; Monol′ogy the habit of doing so.
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Examples
- Gudrun could not understand a word of his monologue, but she was spell-bound, watching him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Its songs, orchestral and solo renditions, and its humorous monologue reproductions constitute to-day a great library of wax cylinders, regularly catalogued and sold by the thousands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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