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Monaco

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɒ.nə.kəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//mɒˈnɑː.kəʊ//
  • United States//ˈmɑ.nə.koʊ//

A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.

    Holly followed the Italian coast up to Monaco, and from there across the Alps to France.

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μόνοικος (Mónoikos), which is of unknown (possibly Ligurian) origin. The name was associated at an early date with Hercules, who had a temple here, and was said to mean “he who dwells alone”; see μόνος (mónos) and οἰκέω (oikéō).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).