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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal Infectious mononucleosis.
  2. adj. Informal Monaural; monophonic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The black howler or howling monkey, Mycetes villosus.
  2. n. A prefix in many words of Greek origin or formation, meaning ‘single,’ ‘one.’

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang (UK, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding
  2. adj. colloquial abbreviation for monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel
  3. n. Short name for the disease mononucleosis

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The black howler (Mycetes villosus), a monkey of Central America.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
  2. adj. designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel

Etymologies

  1. Shortening of mononucleosis (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for monophonic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. glandular fever
  1. mononucleosis
  1. wheelie
  1. kissing disease

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  1. monaural

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  1. stereo

hypernyms (1)

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  1. infectious disease

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  3. 24-bit
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  2. n
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  2. full-function
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  2. lead-colored
  3. nitrogen-containing
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rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Loiacono
  1. ono

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  1. monophonic
  2. mon
  1. mon-
  2. matezite
  1. monoousian
  2. rittingerite
  1. amidin
  2. proto-
  1. rackarock
  2. -type
  1. sansevieria
  2. digestion products
  1. vulpic
  2. zygomorphous

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  1. spanish
  1. band name

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  • qroqqa Usually when a word has many meanings in English, they are the result of a centuries-long process, many of them washed up on the banks of oblivion by our time. In the case of mono, however, they're all new:

    (1) 1851: Mono, a Californian tribe
    (2) 1924: a picador's assistant, a monosabio
    (3) 1937: a boiler suit, especially those worn by Republican militia in the Spanish Civil War (literally "monkey")
    (4) 1959: monophonic recording
    (5) 1964: the disease mononucleosis
    (6) 1970: monochrome, black and white
    (7) 1977: a single-hulled boat, a monohull
    (8) 1979: a single-stranded fibre, a monofilament

    And it's perhaps a little surprising that no use of Japanese mono has come into English as a separate word. (The OED of course lists mono no aware under that phrase.) Jun 3, 2009

  • john Spanish for monkey. Oct 23, 2008

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