mon

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling'mon': (mon); 'Mon': (mōn)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mon  (mon),USA pronunciation n. [Scot. and North Eng.]
  1. Scottish Termsman.

Mon  (mōn),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. an Austroasiatic language used chiefly in Burma in the vicinity of Moulmein.

mon-, 
  1. var. of mono- before a vowel:monacid.

Mon., 
    1. Monday.
    2. Monsignor.

mon., 
    1. monastery.
    2. monetary.

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
Mon.,  an abbreviation of:
  1. Monday.

-mon-, root. 
    1. -mon- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "warn.'' This meaning is found in such words as: admonish, admonition, monitor, monitory, monster, monstrous, monument, premonition, summon.

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mon•o1 /ˈmɑnoʊ/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. Informal Termsmononucleosis:a bad case of mono.

mon•o2 /ˈmɑnoʊ/USA pronunciation   adj. 
  1. Music and Dance, Sound Reproductionmonophonic:The old mono records were scratchy and worn.

mono-, prefix. 
  1. mono- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning "one, single, lone.'' This meaning is found in such words as: monarch, monastery, monochrome, monocle, monogamy, monogram, monograph, monolingual, monolith, monologue, mononucleosis, monopoly, monorail, monosyllable, monotonous.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mon•o1  (mon′ō),USA pronunciation n. [Informal.]
  1. Informal Termsinfectious mononucleosis.
  • by shortening

mon•o2  (mon′ō),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Music and Dance, Sound Reproductionmonophonic (def. 2).
  • by shortening

mono-, 
  1. a combining form meaning "alone,'' "single,'' "one'' (monogamy);
    specialized in some scientific terms to denote a monomolecular thickness (monolayer) and adapted in chemistry to apply to compounds containing one atom of a particular element (monohydrate).
Also,[esp. before a vowel,] mon-. 
  • Greek, combining form of mónos alone

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Mon.
  1. Monday
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
mon-
  1. a variant of mono-
'mon' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
African green monkey - African mongoose - Agamemnon - Anglesey - Austroasiatic - Badlands National Park - Binet-Simon scale - Book of Common Prayer - Book of Mormon - Chinese money - Common Era - Common Market - Daudet - Duras - Khmer - Mon. - Resnais - Vietnamese - absolute monarchy - alimony - baccalaureate sermon - bank money - beaked salmon - black money - blood money - blue Monday - bonnet monkey - c'mon - cacodemon - call money - cash money - chrismon - common - common bond - common business oriented language - common canary - common carotid artery - common carrier - common cold - common cost - common council - common denominator - common difference - common disaster - common divisor - common fraction - common grackle - common ground - common iliac artery - common law

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