monoglot

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Which is huge component in making European health care so cheap (of course at the cost of having an acute deficiency of skilled doctors and nurses). monoglot 2 points 1 hour ago* monoglot 2 points 1 hour ago*

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  1. noun A person who knows only one language.
  2. adjective Knowing only one language; monolingual.

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  • (Mandy is an exception: like the vast majority of British Europhiles, he is stubbornly monoglot.) —  The First Post: Latest
  • Which is huge component in making European health care so cheap (of course at the cost of having an acute deficiency of skilled doctors and nurses). monoglot 2 points 1 hour ago* monoglot 2 points 1 hour ago* —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • It's a charming name for a baby girl, or possibly for a perfume made by a monoglot Japanese toiletry manufacturer. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • After obtaining my PGCE I was told in a conversation with the deputy director of education for the county that I had "no chance" of getting a primary school teaching job in the county of my birth as an English monoglot. —  BlogCymru.com
  • In part, this is because no writer's sensibility is formed any more (except perhaps writers who work and read in languages with very small catchments) by a monoglot literary culture; much of what we know and love is through translations, and a world without translation would leave every reader and writer alarmingly impoverished. —  The Middle Stage
 

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  1. mono- + (poly)glot.

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  1. from LGr. μονόγλωττος, μονόγλωσσ, σ1ος, speaking but one language, from Greek μόνος, single, + γλῶττα, Attic form of γλῶσσ, σ1α, tongue, language.
 

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/ˈmɑnəglɑt/
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