monologist
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- noun
- /məˈnɑlədʒɪst/
- At the theater, the monologist delivered a hilarious monologue that left everyone in stitches.
- a great monologist
Examples
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First, the hermetic seal that Krupat places around the "monologist" voice originates in an Enlightenment notion of autonomy that many would insist has never really existed.
Academic text (1998) -
The informational fact that Twain offers operates primarily as a pretext for the narrator, the funny monologist, to emerge in order to manipulate and augment the reader's response.
Academic text (2005) -
A monologist.
Fiction book (2001) -
The monologist is Sharon's dissertation advisor.
Fiction book (1995) -
Finally, the line below that should read: "Directed by St. Clair Bayfield, eminent actor and monologist."
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In both cases, the monologues are "cast in first-person/present tense" ("Exchange" 265), and the monologists become "substitute" narrators.
Academic text (1996) -
Unlike their novelist and monologist peers, many Victorian lyricists generate hauntingly vague and undeveloped voices that cannot be connected to an identifiable setting or a well-characterized individual.
Academic text (2017) -
The talented monologist entertained the audience with a captivating story about his travels.
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Everyone eagerly awaited the famous monologist as he took the stage to share his latest comedic tales.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who gives a talk to an audience
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9.9
A person who speaks their thoughts out loud alone on stage in a play
How Theatrical
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4.4
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8.3
- Literature
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2.4
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3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monologist comes from mono- meaning 'one' and -log- meaning 'speech' or 'word', as in monologue and dialogue. So a monologist is someone who performs a long speech alone on stage.