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Definition: Soliloquy |
SoliloquyNoun1. Speech you make to yourself. 2. A (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soliloquy" was first used: 1613. (references) |
Etymology: Soliloquy \So*lil"o*quy\, noun; plural Soliloquies. [Latin expression soliloquium; solus alone loqui to speak. See Sole ly, and Loquacious.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SoliloquySynonym: monologue (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Writers such as Shakespeare used the soliloquy to great effect in order to express aloud to audiences some of the emotions and thoughts of characters, without specifically resorting to third-party narration.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soliloquy."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Soliloquy | Noun: soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology. |
Speech | Oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy; allocution; conversation; salutatory : screed: valedictory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soliloquy |
| English words defined with "soliloquy": letter-perfect ♦ Soliloquies, stream of consciousness ♦ word-perfect. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Soliloquy (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Soliloquy of the Minnesota viking in the thrilling Ballinger-Pinchot melodrama -- "shall I whitewash or shall I probe". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | If, perchance, this soliloquy referred to the last time he had dined it was three days before, for it was then Friday. |
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| "Soliloquy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soliloquy" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 68 | 40,606 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "soliloquy": prose-soliloquy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | alleenspraak (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të folur me vete, monolog (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناجاة المرء لنفسه, مناجاة النفس, مونولوج (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | говорене на себе си, монолог (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | samomluva, monolog (monologue, speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | monoloog (monologue), alleenspraak (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | monologo (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نمایش یامقاله یاسخنرانی یکنفری , گفتگوباخود, تک گوءی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksinpuhelu (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soliloque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | allinnespraak (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Selbstgespräch (monologue), Monolog (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονόλογοσ (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מו ולו' (monologue), ח" שיח (monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | monológ (monolog, monologue), magánbeszéd (monolog, monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | monologo (monolog, monologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 独語 (monologue), 独白 (monologue, talking to oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どく" (after reading a book, monologue), どくはく (monologue, talking to oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loayrtys ny lomarcan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oliloquysay solilóquio. (various references) soliloc (soliloquium), monolog (monologue, soliloquium). (various references) монолог (monologue, soliloquies). (various references) monolog (monologue). (various references) soliloquio, monólogo (monolog, monologue). (various references) monolog (monologue). (various references) monolog (monologue), kendi kendine konuşma. (various references) розмова з самим собою (soliloquium), монолог (monologue, soliloquium). (various references) câu nói một mình sự nói một mình. (various references) ymson (soliloquize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | solus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | soliloquium. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Soliloquy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oslizlok, sililoquy, solilaquy, soliliquy, solilloquy, soliloguy, soliloqouy, soliloqoy, soliloqu, soliloquay, soliloque, soliloquey, soliloqui, soliloquiy, soliloquoy, soliloqy, solioquy, solliloquy, solyloquy, syliloquy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "soliloquy" (pronounced sō"lulÄ'kwē) |
| 3 | -k w ē | colloquy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-o-o-q-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: lousily. | |
-3 letters: quills, squill. | |
-4 letters: louis, lousy, olios, quill, silly, slily, sully, yills. | |
-5 letters: ills, illy, lily, loos, oils, oily, olio, sill, silo, soil, soli, solo, soul, syli, yill. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-o-o-q-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: loquaciously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 69 6C 6F 71 75 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. .. .-.. --- --.- ..- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01101001 01101100 01101111 01110001 01110101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l i l o q u y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0069 006C 006F 0071 0075 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538178757881838791 |
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