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monas

[ mon-as, moh-nas ]

noun

, plural mon·a·des [mon, -, uh, -deez].


monas

/ ˈməʊ-; ˈmɒnæs /

noun

  1. another word for monad monad
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of monas1

< Late Latin < Greek monás; monad
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Example Sentences

The Spaniards called them “monas coloradas;” but they are generally known as howling monkeys.

The unity which sunders itself into the multiplicity of things may be called the monas monadum, each thing being a monas or self-existent, living being, a universe in itself.

It can neither be compared with the microscopic organism classed once among polygastric infusoria, and now regarded as vegetable and ranked among algae; nor is it quite the monas of the Peripatetics.

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