monolingual
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- adjective
- /ˌmɒnəˈlɪŋɡwəl/
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monolingüe
- All participants were monolingual English speakers with normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no known reading difficulties.
- monolingual speakers
- monolingual peers
- monolingual children
Many of them are still monolingual Cambodian speakers after, you know, many years of living in this country.
- Many of them are still monolingual Cambodian speakers after, you know, many years of living in this country.
- It's, it's, it's, it's not monotheistic or monolingual.
Examples
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Ireland had shifted from being essentially a bilingual country to being increasingly a monolingual one.
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Thirty were male household heads; however, twenty-four of these men had monolingual Francophone wives.
Academic text (2000) -
Only the English context was implemented for the monolingual English speakers.
Academic text (2011) -
Many of them are still monolingual Cambodian speakers after, you know, many years of living in this country.
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On the basis of this score, we designated children as monolingual or bilingual.
Academic text (2013) -
Illiteracy rates are still high among women, and most are monolingual Arabic speakers.
Academic text (2009) -
The participants were English monolingual Caucasian children from middle socioeconomic status backgrounds.
Academic text (2014) -
All sections of the PLS-4 were administered in one session to the monolingual English-speaking participants.
Academic text (2013) -
The sample of monolingual English speakers was extracted from the WISC-IV normative sample.
Academic text (2013) -
All participants in the study were monolingual English speakers who could not communicate in any other language.
Synonyms
Speaking only one language
Antonyms
How Multilingual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monolingual combines mono- 'one' and lingua 'tongue', so it means 'one tongue' and describes something or someone using only one language.