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mono¹

  • /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈmɑ.noʊ/ US
  • /ˈmoːnoː/ South Asia

Rhymes with -ɒnəʊ

Where it comes from

Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).

noun monos

  1. Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.

    Similar: wheelie

  2. countable, uncountable A diet where someone eats only one type of food. plum mono
  3. abbreviation, clipping, countable, uncountable Clipping of monomorphism
  4. abbreviation, clipping, informal, uncountable Clipping of mononucleosis
  5. countable, informal Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, not comparable Clipping of monochrome 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.
  2. abbreviation, clipping, informal, not comparable Clipping of monosexual People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

mono²

  • /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈmɑ.noʊ/ US
  • /ˈmoːnoː/ South Asia

Rhymes with -ɒnəʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of monophonic.

adjective

  1. informal, not comparable Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel. Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

mono³

  • /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈmɑ.noʊ/ US
  • /ˈmoːnoː/ South Asia

Rhymes with -ɒnəʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of monoamorous.

adjective more mono · most mono

  1. informal Monoamorous, monogamous.

noun monos

  1. informal A monogamous person. For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned.

Mono⁴

  • /ˈmoʊnoʊ/

Where it comes from

Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seem to derive their name from the same common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.

noun Mono · Monos

  1. A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California. The Mono believe that Condor seized humans, cut off their heads and drained their blood in order to flood the home of Ground Squirrel.
  2. A Mono wind. […]SANTA ANAS, MONOS, AND NORTHERS.

proper noun

  1. The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
  2. A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
  3. An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.

Mono⁵

noun Mono · Monos

  1. A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.

proper noun

  1. The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
  2. A town in Ontario.
  3. An island of the Solomon Islands.
  4. A river in Togo.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mononucleosis, monaural, monophonic, single-channel, diiodotyrosine, monkey, divalent, black, monochrome, black-and-white, single, simple, coach, instructor, yama, monet

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adj having only a single audio channel

Españolmono
日本語モノ mono
中文單聲道 /单声道 dānshēngdào
Portuguêsmono
Françaismono
Русскиймо́но móno, монофони́ческий monofoníčeskij

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@misc{mono_2026,
  title = {mono},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mono},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}