Month: July 2019

Soliloquy

Jovan Stosic July 3, 2019

soliloquy

sə’lɪləkwi■  noun (plural soliloquies) an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of hearers, especially by a character in a play.
 

soliloquist noun
soliloquize or soliloquise verb
 

ME: from late L. soliloquium, from L. solus ‘alone’ + loqui ‘speak’.

From Concise Oxford Thesaurus

soliloquy

▶  noun MONOLOGUE, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon, homily, aside.

From Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

soliloquy

so·lilo·quy soliloquies
[N-COUNT]
A soliloquy is a speech in a play in which an actor or actress speaks to himself or herself and to the audience, rather than to another actor.

From EngMac

soliloquy

монолог

From English-Serbian dictionary

Soliloquy

Monolog

From English-Croatian Dictionary

soliloquy

razgovor sa samim sobom , monolog

From English-Bulgarian

soliloquy

[sъ’lilъkwi] n 1. монолог; 2. говорене на себе си.

From Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary

so·lil·o·quy

Pronunciation:     sə-‘li-lə-kwē
Function:           noun
Inflected Form:    plural -quies
Etymology:          Late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus alone + loqui to speak
Date:               circa 1613


1 : the act of talking to oneself
2 : a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (4th Ed)

soliloquy

so·lil·o·quy /sE5lIlEkwi/ n plural soliloquies
[U and C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: soliloquium, from Latin solus ( SOLE1) + loqui ‘to speak’]
a speech in a play in which a character, usually alone on the stage, talks to himself or herself so that theaudience knows their thoughts
→monologue
>soliloquize /-kwaIz/ v [I]

From Oxford Talking Dictionary

soliloquy

soliloquy
/sə“lɪləkwi/
n. ME. [Late L soliloquium, f. L soli-, solus sole, alone + loqui speak: see -Y4.]
(A literary representation or imitation of) an instance of talking to oneself or regardless of any audience;spec. a part of a play involving this. ME.
The action of soliloquizing; monologue. M17.
Rare bef. E19.

Quotation M. PRIOR The..poem is a soliloquy: Solomon..speaks. W. F. BUCKLEY He did..his thinking by soliloquy, preferably in the presence of one other person.
From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Soliloquy

(n.)

A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.

Soliloquy

(n.)

The act of talking to one’s self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one’s self; monologue.

From SOED

soliloquy

soliloquy noun. [sǝ’lɪlǝkwi] ME.
[Late Latin soliloquium, from Latin soli-, solus sole, alone + loqui speak: see -Y4.]
(A literary representation or imitation of) an instance of talking to oneself or regardless of any audience;spec. a part of a play involving this. ME.
M. Prior The..poem is a soliloquy: Solomon..speaks.
The action of soliloquizing; monologue. M17.
W. F. Buckley He did..his thinking by soliloquy, preferably in the presence of one other person.
¶ Rare before E19.

From Century Dictionary (1889)

soliloquy

 

  • n. A talking to one’s self; a discourse or talk by a person who is alone, or which is not addressed to any one even when others are present.

 

 

  • n. A written composition containing such a talk or discourse, or what purports to be one.

 

 

From American Heritage Dictionary

soliloquy

so·lil·o·quy (sə-lĭlə-kwē)
n. pl. so·lil·o·quies
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
The act of speaking to oneself.

[Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots + Latin loquī,to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European Roots.]

Soliloquy was last modified: July 22nd, 2019 by Jovan Stosic