monoglotadj.n.

1830 R. Southey Let. 9 June in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 106 Lamentable experience makes me know how much is lost by a monoglot traveller.

1860 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 25 A more minute account of my initiatory experiences..may be of some interest to the monoglot reader.

1905 Schoolmaster 15 Apr. 774/1 ‘Monoglot’ Welsh maidens are few in these days.

1908 E. M. Sneyd-Kynnersley H.M.I. iii. 20 An indigenous driver, lineally descended from Caliban, all but monoglott.

1964 Welsh Hist. Rev. 2 71 There is no better and no more tenacious a guardian of a mother tongue than a monoglot peasantry.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 133 There is..a concluding summary in English which..enables the monoglot speaker of English to obtain a fair idea of the author's approach to his subject.

1890 Cent. Dict. Monoglot,..written or published in only one language.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. (at cited word) A monoglot dictionary.

1955 E. Reifler in W. N. Locke & A. D. Booth Machine Transl. Langs. ix. 142 We could develop monoglot dictionaries which would explain every one of the multiple meanings of its head entries entirely in the language to which these head entries belong.

1987 J. G. A. Pocock in A. Pagden Langs. Polit. Theory Early-Mod. Europe (1990) i. 21 An indefinite number of these [sub-languages] may be found within a given language, and may consequently be found within a single monoglot text.

1830 J. A. Heraud Descent into Hell xi. 106 Myriads of voices, as one voice, aloud Anthem the Song, a choral monoglot.

1894 Times 11 Jan. 7/4 Whether monoglots only are reckoned, or [etc.].

1896 Blackwood's Mag. 717 Sour and Saxon-hating monoglots.

1948 E. Waugh in Bk. for Brides 53 For the privileged monoglot two cities have outstanding attractions—Copenhagen and New York. All Danes and most Americans speak excellent English.

1976 Rosc 25 xii. 1/1 He instanced areas in which Irish-speakers were denied basic rights:..the appointment of English-speaking monoglots to Civil Service positions involving direct dealing with the public.

1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 4/2 The day someone invents a car alarm that actually stops vehicles being stolen, I'll learn Latvian. I expect to die a monoglot.