Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An entertainment in which a single actor sustains many characters.
Wiktionary
- n. An exhibition in which an actor performs as many characters.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek. See mono-, poly-, -logue, and compare monologue. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“a vegetable dieter, and Mr. Galen Cornaro, an abominator of wine, and a dyspeptic follower of Kitchener and Abernethy -- a trio of singularities that would afford excellent materials for my friend Richard Peake, the dramatist, in mixing up a new _monopolylogue_ for that facetious child of whim and wit, the inimitable Charles Mathews.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monopolylogue’.
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phrontistery - m
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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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rememberers
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mps86's Words
maduro, reredos, manting, anancy, tittup, rogation, twocker, xeriscape, monopolylogue, multilobate, mew, beamy and 69 more...
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