a speech in a play in which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his or her thoughts; the act of speaking thoughts in this way synonym monologue Hamlet's famous soliloquy, “To be or not to be…” the playwright's use of soliloquy
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NAmE//səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz//
verb [intransitive]See soliloquy in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: soliloquy