monoglot
/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)ɡlɒt
/adjective
Using or speaking only one language: monoglot Irish-speakers...
- He is the darling of German society magazines and is the kind of multilingual European who puts monoglot Brits to shame.
- Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way (he reproves monoglot historians for their provincialism).
- At the 1981 census, there were little over 80,000 speakers, with only a few hundred under the age of five and there are few monoglot speakers above this age.
noun
A person who speaks only one language.One group is sure to complain about such an arrangement, and that is the small number of Mainlander Mandarin monoglots....
- Thus Bill Labov is not a monoglot, as it happens, but I don't believe that any of his major contributions depend on his speaking or reading any languages other than English.
- Lest the reader think that I am flexing my achievements here, I should also point out that despite several years of Spanish and some time knocking around in Germany, I'm a hopeless monoglot.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek monoglōttos, from monos 'single' + glōtta 'tongue'.
- put something about
- put something across
- put something aside
- put something away
- put something back
- put something behind one
- put something by
- put something down
- put something down to
- put something forward
- put something in/into
- put something into operation
- put something into someone's head
- put something into words
- put something off
- put something on
- put something on the long finger
- put something out
- put something out to tender
- put something over
- put something through
- put something to
- put something to bed
- put something together
- put something to good use