"soliloquy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /səˈlɪləkwi/ Audio: en-us-soliloquy.ogg [US], en-au-soliloquy.ogg [Australia] Forms: soliloquies [plural]
enPR: səlĭlʹəkwē Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|sōliloquium}} Late Latin sōliloquium, {{m|la|sōlus||only, sole}} sōlus (“only, sole”), {{m|la|loquor||I speak}} loquor (“I speak”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|soliloquies}} soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)
  1. (drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Drama, Talking Translations (act of a character speaking to himself): alleenspraak (Afrikaans), монолог (monolog) [masculine] (Bulgarian), soliloqui [masculine] (Catalan), 獨白 (Chinese Mandarin), 独白 (dúbái) (Chinese Mandarin), samomluva (Czech), enetale [common-gender] (Danish), yksinpuhelu (Finnish), soliloque [masculine] (French), Selbstgespräch [neuter] (German), μονόλογος (monólogos) [masculine] (Greek), monológ (Hungarian), magánbeszéd (Hungarian), eintal [neuter] (Icelandic), einræða [feminine] (Icelandic), soliloquio [masculine] (Italian), 独り言 (hitorigoto) (alt: ひとりごと) (Japanese), 独白 (dokuhaku) (alt: どくはく) (Japanese), 独話 (dokuwa) (alt: どくわ) (Japanese), 독백 (dokbaek) (alt: 獨白) (Korean), solilokwium [neuter] (Polish), solilóquio [masculine] (Portuguese), моноло́г (monológ) [masculine] (Russian), солило́квий (solilókvij) [masculine, rare] (Russian), soliloquio [masculine] (Spanish), monolog (Swedish), ymson [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-soliloquy-en-noun-4nOTgdqO Disambiguation of Talking: 34 41 25 Topics: broadcasting, drama, dramaturgy, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater Disambiguation of 'act of a character speaking to himself': 91 9
  2. (authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: monologue Translations (speech or written discourse in this form): soliloqui [masculine] (Catalan), 獨白 (Chinese Mandarin), 独白 (dúbái) (Chinese Mandarin), enetale [common-gender] (Danish), monolog [common-gender] (Danish), monoloog (Dutch), yksinpuhelu (Finnish), soliloque [masculine] (French), monologue [masculine] (French), Selbstgespräch [neuter] (German), Monolog [masculine] (German), μονόλογος (monólogos) [masculine] (Greek), monológ (Hungarian), belső monológ (Hungarian), magánbeszéd (Hungarian), eintal [neuter] (Icelandic), einræða [feminine] (Icelandic), einræða persónu [feminine] (Icelandic), soliloquio [masculine] (Italian), 独白 (dokuhaku) (alt: どくはく) (Japanese), kupu whaiaroaro (Maori), solilóquio [masculine] (Portuguese), моноло́г (monológ) [masculine] (Russian), soliloquio [masculine] (Spanish), monolog [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-soliloquy-en-noun-ddpDh8mh Disambiguation of Talking: 34 41 25 Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing Disambiguation of 'speech or written discourse in this form': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: locution, oration Derived forms: soliloquist, soliloquize Related terms: solo, solitude, locution (english: see other terms on same loquor root), apostrophe, stage whisper

Verb [English]

IPA: /səˈlɪləkwi/ Audio: en-us-soliloquy.ogg [US], en-au-soliloquy.ogg [Australia] Forms: soliloquies [present, singular, third-person], soliloquying [participle, present], soliloquing [participle, present], soliloquied [participle, past], soliloquied [past]
enPR: səlĭlʹəkwē Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|sōliloquium}} Late Latin sōliloquium, {{m|la|sōlus||only, sole}} sōlus (“only, sole”), {{m|la|loquor||I speak}} loquor (“I speak”) Head templates: {{en-verb|soliloquies|soliloquying|soliloquied|pres_ptc2=soliloquing}} soliloquy (third-person singular simple present soliloquies, present participle soliloquying or soliloquing, simple past and past participle soliloquied)
  1. (very rare) To issue a soliloquy. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: soliloquize [common]
    Sense id: en-soliloquy-en-verb-UIvGf2u~ Disambiguation of Talking: 34 41 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 16 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 13 66

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, J.M. Dent & Co, London, Chapter XII: Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales, Sand-martins, etc., page 315",
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          "alt": "ひとりごと",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hitorigoto",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
          "word": "独り言"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "alt": "どくはく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "dokuhaku",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
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          "alt": "どくわ",
          "code": "ja",
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          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
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          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
          "word": "독백"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
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          "roman": "solilókvij",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
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          "word": "солило́квий"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "soliloquio"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
          "word": "monolog"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "act of a character speaking to himself",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "word": "colloquy"
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          "word": "dialogue"
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        {
          "word": "dialog"
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        {
          "ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135",
          "text": "The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶\"How I remember as I look […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126",
          "text": "Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.",
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          "word": "monologue"
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        "authorship",
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        "communications",
        "film",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "television",
        "writing"
      ],
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "soliloqui"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "獨白"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dúbái",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "独白"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "enetale"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "monolog"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "monoloog"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "yksinpuhelu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "soliloque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "monologue"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Selbstgespräch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Monolog"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "monólogos",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "μονόλογος"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "monológ"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "belső monológ"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "magánbeszéd"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
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          "word": "eintal"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "einræða"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "einræða persónu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "soliloquio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "alt": "どくはく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "dokuhaku",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "独白"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "word": "kupu whaiaroaro"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "solilóquio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
      "word": "belső monológ"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
      "word": "magánbeszéd"
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      "word": "einræða persónu"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "monológ",
      "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "моноло́г"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "soliloquio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "speech or written discourse in this form",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "monolog"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Augustine of Hippo",
    "Hamlet",
    "Soliloquiorum libri duo",
    "To be, or not to be",
    "William Shakespeare"
  ],
  "word": "soliloquy"
}

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    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
    "English terms derived from Late Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Talking"
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "sōliloquium"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin sōliloquium",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "sōlus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "only, sole"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "loquor",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I speak"
      },
      "expansion": "loquor (“I speak”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo (\"Two Books of Soliloquies\"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).",
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    {
      "form": "soliloquies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soliloquying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soliloquing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soliloquied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soliloquied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "soliloquies",
        "2": "soliloquying",
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        "pres_ptc2": "soliloquing"
      },
      "expansion": "soliloquy (third-person singular simple present soliloquies, present participle soliloquying or soliloquing, simple past and past participle soliloquied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "so‧lil‧o‧quy"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To issue a soliloquy."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(very rare) To issue a soliloquy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/səˈlɪləkwi/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-soliloquy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/En-us-soliloquy.ogg/En-us-soliloquy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/En-us-soliloquy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-soliloquy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/71/En-au-soliloquy.ogg/En-au-soliloquy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/En-au-soliloquy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "səlĭlʹəkwē"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "common"
      ],
      "word": "soliloquize"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Augustine of Hippo",
    "Soliloquiorum libri duo"
  ],
  "word": "soliloquy"
}

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