Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who knows only one language.
- adj. Knowing only one language; monolingual.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Speaking or using only one language.
- Written or published in only one language.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- mono- + (poly)glot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Hence reports that Mr. Cameron had asked Commission President José Manuel Barroso for a one-off concours, in English only, to help his monoglot island.”
The Wall Street Journal: No English-Only Exams For Would-Be Eurocrats
“Welsh Labour's website has since dissappeared and reappeared even more monoglot than before, with only a few token words of Welsh thrown in.”
“Being as I always felt vaguely guilty about being a monoglot but never quite enough to learn another language, eh? it was impressed on me.”
“How would it make him a hypocrite if he were a monoglot?”
“The commitment to boycott Westminster would hardly cause a 'Sinn Feinner' like H.R. Jones to frown too much, and it's possible that demanding a monoglot Welsh speaking Wales would have been to his taste.”
“One could also consider that placing the Welsh language programmes on one special channel out of the sight of those unable to speak Welsh has helped to neutralize the inflammatory and divisive effect of the language on monoglot monoglot English speaking Welsh people.”
“There were also plans to establish a monoglot Welsh speaking channel for Wales.”
“For the directors of HTV such as Lord Harlech and Alun Talfan Davies, the plan to establish a monoglot Welsh language channel was a nuisance.”
“Apologies for my poor spelling on monoglot and polyglot (missing the "l" out).”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“The USA, for all its many, many faults is a vigorous essentially monoglot democracy - far more vigorous than the EU or even the UK.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monoglot’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
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word set6
calendrical, distal, egalitarian, in situ, multivariate, cryophilous, refutation, replicable, conchoidal, seeress, gigacycle, filamentous and 89 more...
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rivets's Words
epopt, bifurcated, ptilota, serendipity, philprogenitive, cardoon, scorzonera, salsify, valetudinarianism, capercailie, hornpipe, strathspey and 52 more...
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toonacious_d's Words
risible, conundrum, monoglot, polyglot, omphaloskepsis, animosity, phillumenist, sedition, hegemony, hegemonic, numismatist, causality and 25 more...
Tweets
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senwick Someone who speaks only one language Nov 4, 2008