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• n  a person who knows only one language
• a  using or knowing only one language
  monolingual speakers
  a monolingual dictionary

• Under monolingual Director Gerber now work eleven listening linguists, each of whom knows at least three languages.
• Son is a bearded off-beatnik novelist who has brought home to London a monolingual Greek gamine first encountered in a Sardinian hay stack.
• Moreover, because the lingua franca of international hotel staffs is English, notoriously monolingual Americans, Brits and Australians probably rank higher than they should.

• multilingual

News & Articles

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• Eleven of Merriam-Webster’s Best-selling Dictionaries and Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary at a Special Price of ...
  Paragon Software Group, a leading software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, in partnership with Merriam-Webster, Inc., the leader in language reference publishing in the United States, announces the release of eleven monolingual and bilingual reference classics from Merriam-Webster for Mac OS X. (PRWeb August 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013 ...
  Aug. 14, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Lee Kuan Yew in Inquirer.net
  Lee explained the need for two languages: "If we were monolingual in our mother tongues, we would not make a living. Becoming monolingual in English would have been a setback. We would have lost our cultural identity, that quiet confidence about...
• Leonard Orban in Witan Jardine Recruitment Consultancy
  Leonard Orban, the EU commissioner for multilingualism, told the Guardian that "British graduates are missing out on some of the best jobs at home and abroad because they are on the whole monolingual". "An English mother-tongue candidate with...
• Herman Badillo in NewsMax.com
  Instead of helping students learn English, bilingual education became monolingual education in Spanish,Badillo says.