What does "mono" mean?
A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
Mono
/ˈmɑ.noʊ/ adj, name, noun, slang
adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
- Grammar: mono is listed as adj, name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, audio sound system.
- Useful contrasts: bi, bigeminal, binary label.
- Usage evidence: "I've got mono." "Did you kiss someone?"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding. Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
- 2 A monogamous person. informal
"For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned."
- 3 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."
- 4 A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.
- 5 an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing wordnet
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- 6 A diet where someone eats only one type of food. countable, uncountable
"plum mono"
- 7 A Mono wind.
"[…]SANTA ANAS, MONOS, AND NORTHERS."
- 8 Clipping of monomorphism. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
- 9 Clipping of mononucleosis. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
- 10 Any fish of the family Monodactylidae. countable, informal
Adjective
- 1 Clipping of monochrome. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable
"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 Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel. informal, not-comparable
"Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono."
- 3 Monoamorous, monogamous. informal
- 4 Clipping of monosexual. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable
"People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway."
Adjective
- 1 designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
- 2 The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
- 3 A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
- 4 A town in Ontario.
- 5 An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.
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- 6 An island of the Solomon Islands.
- 7 A river in Togo.
Synonyms
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Example
""I've got mono." "Did you kiss someone?""
Common questions
What is a synonym for "mono"?
Common synonyms include: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system.
How do you use "mono" in a sentence?
"I've got mono." "Did you kiss someone?"
How do you pronounce "mono"?
Pronounced /ˈmɑ.noʊ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).
Etymology 2
Clipping of monophonic.
Etymology 3
Clipping of monoamorous.
Etymology 4
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.