Word.ws English Dictionary

mononyms

mononyms is the plural of mononym.

Meaning of mononym

Noun

mononym (plural mononyms)

  1. A single name or term by which a person, thing, etc., is known.
    • The atlas and axis have special names, but most of the vertebra, like the ribs, are merely numbered ; among the arteries, the aorta only has a mononym ;1891, The Shipley collection of scientific papers - Volume 27
  2. A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.
    • ISO 704 and ISO 1087 prescribe mononymy as highly desirable for standardized terminologies, but as experience shows, individuals in developing disciplines (having unsettled terminology) are rarely able to agree on mononyms.1993, Richard Alan Strehlow, Sue Ellen Wright, Standardizing Terminology for Better Communication, →ISBN

Questions about mononyms

What is mononyms the plural of?
Mononyms is the plural of mononym.

Words near mononyms in the dictionary

  1. mononym
  2. mononymic
  3. mononymically
  4. mononymous
  5. mononymously
  6. mononyms
  7. mononymy
  8. monooctanoate
  9. monooctanoates
  10. monooctanoin
  11. monooctyl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mononyms (page history and authors); mononym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mononyms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mononyms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.