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monolingual

adj

Etymology

From mono- + lingual.

  1. learned borrowing from linguālis
  2. formed as monolingual — “mono- + lingual”

Definitions

  1. Knowing or using a single language

    Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.

    • Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.

  2. a person who knows or uses only a single language

    a person who knows or uses only a single language; a monoglot

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monolingual. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA