Mono Meaning
/ˈmɒn.əʊ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
nounA diet where someone eats only one type of food.
Sentence Examples
"I've got mono." "Did you kiss someone?"
You can catch mono from kissing.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The tired student developed ____ after sharing a water bottle with a friend.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The high-quality film was originally recorded in simple ____ sound, but it was later digitally remastered to have a full stereo effect.
Word Origin & History
Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode."
— 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 4, page 125:
"People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway."
— 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, →ISBN:
"That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]"
— 2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 37:
"For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned."
— 2010, Leonie Linssen, Love Unlimited: The Joys and Challenges of Open Relationships:
"The Mono believe that Condor seized humans, cut off their heads and drained their blood in order to flood the home of Ground Squirrel."
— 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 249:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The tired student developed ____ after sharing a water bottle with a friend.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The high-quality film was originally recorded in simple ____ sound, but it was later digitally remastered to have a full stereo effect.