monitor – English noun declension

English noun forms of monitor

Noun: monitor
Singularmonitor
Pluralmonitors

Sample Sentences

  • The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
  • And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
  • A monitor, though still;
  • Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
  • Beyond the preacher's skill. [1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:]
  • The information flashed up on the monitor.
  • a machine code monitor
  • So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order. [1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:]
  • But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors! [1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:]
  • He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on. [(Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election, Hong Kong ICAC Comics:]
  • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
  • You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
  • There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […] [1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:]

Etymology

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

Verbs referencing "monitor"

Dutch Nouns monitor, Italian Nouns monitor, German Nouns Monitor, English Nouns premonition, Finnish Nouns monitori, Russian Nouns монитор, Italian Nouns monitore.