Noun

(wikipedia monologue) (en noun)

(drama) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person.

(comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.

A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

Noun

(en noun)

A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.

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In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.

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A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

* 1475 , Higden's Polychronicon :

Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle.

(computing) A dialog box.

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