monolinguistn.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈlɪŋɡwᵻst/ A person who speaks only one language; = monolingual n.
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monolinguist1858
monoglot1894
monolingual1956
unilingual1956
1858 Evening Mail 20–22 Oct. 1/4 On being brought before the Procureur Imperial this learned magistrate, also a monolinguist, gave the same interpretation to the passport as the justice and the Gendarme
1928 Observer 8 Apr. 14/3 There is no one living..speaking only Manx and no English. Ten years before that the monolinguists had dwindled to under half a dozen.
1960 J. Lodwick Asparagus Trench 66 All the monolinguists who..would opt for Indian tea in Pekin.
1990 Mind 99 389 Pierre, a monolinguist living in Paris.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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n.1858- to set at pawn, to pledge, to wed
- to set at rest
- to set at square
- to set at store
- to set at the gaze
- to set at the least
- to set at variance
- to set at war
- to set away
- to set awork
- to set back
- to set back on her heels
- to set back on his heels
- to set back the clock
- to set before
- to set behind the door
- to set beside the saddle
- to set by
- to set by the ears
- to set by the heels
- to set case
- to set cock on the hoop
- to set cock-a-hoop
- to set cockahoop
- to set dead