monologue
noun
a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker.
monologuist
-
a word derived from
monologue.
Example Sentences
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This week’s star monologuist is being kept a surprise, but you can find out at Caveat or through a livestream of the performance, recorded in multicam HD, on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Full disclosure: Some years ago, I worked at The Stranger with the marvelous essayist and monologuist David Schmader.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
The forty-one-year-old Tasmanian monologuist Hannah Gadsby addresses many things in her work: among them, violence against women, men and golf, art history, her lesbianism, and her difference in the world.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
But then something happened — as apparently is often the case — to Kitson, a British comic monologuist with a cult following.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
We are told that one of the requisites of the really good talker is to be a good listener; the apparently good talker is in reality a monologuist.
From Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram
