monolingual
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- adjective
- /ˌmɒnəˈlɪŋɡwəl/
- All participants were monolingual English speakers with normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no known reading difficulties.
- monolingual speakers
- monolingual peers
- monolingual children
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Watch on YouTubeMany 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
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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.