mondo

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From Japanese 問答 (mondō).

mondo (plural mondos )

1. (Zen Buddhism ) A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

From the title of the 1962 Italian cult documentary film Mondo cane , Italian for "A Dog's World", from mondo ("world") and cane ("dog"). The film featured bizarre scenes, leading to English use of mondo as an adverb meaning "very, extremely" in mock-Italian phrases like mondo bizarro.^[1] Doublet of monde .

mondo (comparative more mondo, superlative most mondo)

1. (US , slang ) Big, large; major, significant.
   • 1997, K. C. Constantine, Family Values, G. K. Hall & Co., published 1997, →ISBN, page 80:

     [...] I mean, me bein' here has caused us some mondo problems, so I shoulda figured out that not bein' here anymore would cause some more problems — "

   • 2010, Dakota Cassidy, You Dropped a Blonde on Me‎^[1] , Berkley Sensation, published 2010, →ISBN:

     Younger gorgeous woman marries older, rich man, lives her life solely for him while reaping the bennies of mondo moolah only to end up dumped by older rich man for newer, younger model.

   • 2012, Lucienne Diver, Crazy in the Blood, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., published 2012, →ISBN, page 79:

     "You're kidding—you can eat again after that mondo burger you had for lunch?"

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.

mondo (not comparable )

1. (US , slang ) Very, extremely, really.
   • 1992, Cherie Bennett, Sunset Paradise, Berkley, published 1992, →ISBN, page 1:

     "This rain is mondo depressing," Sam sighed as she stared out the sliding glass doors that led to the Hewitts' deck.

   • 2001, Margie Lapanja, Food Men Love: All-Time Favorite Recipes from Caesar Salad and Grilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Buns and Apple Pie, Conari Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 196:

     This recipe, from someone who really knows her tiramisu, is mondo rich, utterly divine, and simple.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Deaver, Mistress of Justice, Bantam Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 93:

     "Hey, this place is mondo cool. Bowie hangs out there. It's so packed you can hardly get in. And they play industrial out of one set of speakers and the Sex Pistols out of the other. I mean in the same room! Like, at a thousand decibels."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.

Nowadays mostly associated with a certain sort of "cheesy" dated youth slang. Modern usage is almost always tongue in cheek. Compare tubular , far-out , etc.

• mondo bizarro

• mondo (scripture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Modon

From French monde , from Latin mundus ("world").

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmondo/
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• Audio 2: (file)
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: mon‧do

mondo (accusative singular mondon , plural mondoj , accusative plural mondojn )

1. world (the earth)
   • 2001 February, Evgeni Georgiev, "Vulkanoj", in Monato ‎^[2] , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2019, page 22:

     Ĉi-momente en la mondo estas preskaŭ 600 aktivaj vulkanoj.

     At this moment there are almost 600 active volcanoes in the world.

2. (with "the") human collective existence; existence in general.
   • 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, La Espero‎^[3] :

     En la mondon venis nova sento

     Into the world came a new feeling

• "mondo", in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• "mondo", in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
• mond' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905

From Latin mundus .

mondo m (plural mondos ) (ORB, broad )

1. world

• monde in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mondo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), "mŭndus", in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 218

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmondo/

mondo (plural mondi )

1. world
2. people; society
3. kingdom

From Latin mundus .

mondo m

1. world
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,

     That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmon.do/
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• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: món‧do

Inherited from Latin mundus ("world").

mondo m (plural mondi )

1. world

   vivere in un proprio mondo ― to live in a world of one’s own

2. people; society
3. kingdom

   mondo vegetale ― vegetable kingdom

• premondo

• mondano
• mondiale

• → English: mondo

Inherited from Latin mundus ("clean").

mondo (feminine monda , masculine plural mondi , feminine plural monde )

1. cleaned (vegetables)
2. peeled (fruit)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mondare

• "mondo" in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• "mondo", in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• mundo

From Latin mundus .

• (Old Lombard ) IPA ^(key): [ˈmondo]

mondo m

1. (Old Lombard ) world

• Lombard: mond

Borrowed from Spanish mundo ("world").

• IPA ^(key): /mono/, [mõˈndo]
• Rhymes: -o

mondo

1. to send

• Britton, A. Scott (2005), "mondo", in Guaraní Concise Dictionary (overall work in English), New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 72
• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), "mondo", in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 66, column 1

mondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mondar

Borrowed from Spanish mundo ("world").

mondo

1. world

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmondo/ [ˈmõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: mon‧do

Inherited from Latin mundus .

mondo (feminine monda , masculine plural mondos , feminine plural mondas )

1. net, pure

   Synonyms: puro , inadulterado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mondar

mondo m (plural mondos )

1. archaic form of mundo

• "mondo", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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mondo class IX (plural mondo class X)

1. serval (medium-sized African wild cat)

mondo

1. plural of ondo

From Latin mundus . Compare Italian mondo .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoŋdo/
• Hyphenation: mon‧do

mondo m (plural mondi )

1. world

• "móndo", in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com

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