Mon

Multiple Entries:
  Mon    Mon.    mon-    mono-  

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Mon /mɔːn/

▶noun (pl. same or Mons)

• 1 a member of a people inhabiting parts of SE Burma (Myanmar) and western Thailand.

• 2 the language of the Mon, related to Khmer.

– origin the name in Mon.

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Mon.

▶abbreviation Monday.

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mon-

▶combining form variant spelling of mono- shortened before a vowel (as in monamine).

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mono- /ˈmɒnəʊ/ (also mon- before a vowel)

▶combining form

• 1 one; alone; single: monocoque.

• 2 Chemistry (forming names of compounds) containing one atom or group of a specified kind: monoamine.

– origin from Gk monos ‘alone’.