Monologue \Mon"o*logue\, n. [F. monologue, Gr. ? speaking alone; mo`nos alone, single, sole + ? speech, discourse, ? to speak. See Legend.]

1. A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue. --Dryden.

2. A dramatic composition for a single performer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)