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’.

soliloquy

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

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.

soliloquy

монолог

Soliloquy

Monolog

soliloquy

razgovor sa samim sobom , monolog

soliloquy

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

so·lil·o·quy

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

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 tolk^w- in Indo-European Roots.]