Definition of Monologist

1. Noun. An entertainer who performs alone.

Generic synonyms: Performer, Performing Artist
Derivative terms: Monologue

Definition of Monologist

1. n. One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.

Definition of Monologist

1. Noun. A person who performs monologues ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monologist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monologist

monolithically
monolithium
monoliths
monolocular
monolog
monologed
monologged
monologging
monologic
monologies
monologing
monologise
monologised
monologises
monologising
monologist
monologists
monologize
monologized
monologizes
monologizing
monologs
monologue
monologued
monologues
monologuing
monologuise
monologuist
monologuists
monologuize

Literary usage of Monologist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Writing for Vaudeville: With Nine Complete Examples of Various Vaudeville by Brett Page, Joseph Berg Esenwein (1915)
"It has just begun, because he must share with the monologist the pains of ... For, points that the author and the monologist himself were sure would "go big ..."

2. Watch Yourself Go by by Alfred Griffith Field (1912)
"At the dullest part in the monologist's offering, "Spider" let go all holds. ... The audience grasped it and the monologist established a reputation for ..."

3. The Bookman (1903)
"Hall McAllister is among them, and George Riddle, the monologist, and J. Cheever Goodwin, author of Wang and other operas. Mr. Goodwin in 1876, ..."

4. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1912)
"Then Swift McGee, the boy monologist, flung himself in the breach and told a ... As a monologist Swift thought he had George Fuller Golden half-way across ..."

5. The Soliloquies of Shakespeare: A Study in Technic by Morris LeRoy Arnold, ( (1911)
"THE BRAGGART The braggart is another type with antecedents in Roman comedy, but the miles gloriosus does not attain distinction as a monologist until the ..."

6. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas Lansing Masson (1904)
"Then Swift McGee, the Boy Monologist, flung himself in the breach and told a ... As a monologist Swift thought he had George Fuller Golden half way across ..."

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