Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An entertainment in which a single actor sustains many characters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
exhibition in which anactor performs as manycharacters .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Ancient Greek. See mono-, poly-, -logue, and compare monologue.
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Examples
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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.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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