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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "alleenspraak"
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "مُونُولُوج"
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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],
"word": "حَدِيث النَّفْس"
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"roman": "menaxosutʻyun",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "մենախոսություն"
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"word": "մոնոլոգ"
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "獨白"
},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"word": "alleenspraak"
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "monoloog"
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "yksinpuhelu"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"tags": [
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"word": "monologue"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "მონოლოგი"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"word": "Selbstgespräch"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "monólogos",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"masculine"
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"word": "מוֹנוֹלוֹג"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ekālāp",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "एकालाप"
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"roman": "ātmabhāṣaṇ",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "आत्मभाषण"
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "monologo"
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"alt": "どくはく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dokuhaku",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "独白"
},
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"alt": "どくわ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dokuwa",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "独話"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "monorōgu",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "モノローグ"
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"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
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"alt": "獨白",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "dokbaek",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "독백"
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{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "monollogeu",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "모놀로그"
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "monologs"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"word": "monologas"
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "kupu whaiaroaro"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "whaikī tōtahi"
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"masculine"
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"code": "nn",
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "تکگویی"
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"masculine"
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"word": "моно̀лог"
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "sariusap"
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{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "บทพูดเดี่ยว"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "monolóh",
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{
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"alt": "獨語",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "drama: long speech by one person",
"word": "độc ngữ"
},
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"lang": "Yiddish",
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"word": "מאָנאָלאָג"
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"english": "Japanese modernism",
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "monopolizing utterance",
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"word": "monologi"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "monopolizing utterance",
"word": "kupu whaiaroaro"
},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "monopolizing utterance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "monopolizing utterance",
"tags": [
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}
]
}
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑnəlɔɡ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑnəlɑɡ/",
"tags": [
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"English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Byzantine Greek",
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"en:Talking"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "monologic"
},
{
"word": "monological"
},
{
"word": "monologically"
},
{
"word": "monologuist"
}
],
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"name": "etydate"
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"3": "monologue"
},
"expansion": "Middle French monologue",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "dialogue"
},
"expansion": "dialogue",
"name": "m"
},
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"1": "en",
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"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gkm",
"3": "μονόλογος",
"4": "",
"5": "speaking alone"
},
"expansion": "Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “speaking alone”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “speaking alone”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "monologues",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "monologuing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "monologued",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "monologued",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deliver a monologue."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑnəlɔɡ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑnəlɑɡ/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"cot-caught-merger"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "monologize"
},
{
"tags": [
"US",
"noun"
],
"word": "monolog"
}
],
"word": "monologue"
}
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