monograph

[ mon-uh-graf, -grahf ]

/ ˈmɒn əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

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noun

a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.

a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments.

an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.

verb (used with object)

to write a monograph about.

Nearby words

Origin of monograph

First recorded in 1815–25; mono- + -graph

Related formsmo·nog·ra·pher

[muh-nog-ruh-fer] /məˈnɒg rə fər/, mo·nog·ra·phist, nounmon·o·graph·ic

[mon-uh-graf-ik] /ˌmɒn əˈgræf ɪk/, mon·o·graph·i·cal, adjectivemon·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

Can be confusedmonogram monograph

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Examples from the Web for monograph

This monograph contains over 500 of his beautiful, emotional images as well as explores his life and development as an artist.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Andy Warhol in Your Life|Allison McNearney|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In addition to his monograph, Mr. Perez released another book, Gilles Mendel by Enoc Perez, available this month at J. Mendel.
Artist Enoc Perez Paints the Great Cities That Never Were|Justin Jones|November 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Franklin circulated the monograph among his friends and correspondents.
Benjamin Franklin, America’s First Storm Chaser|Lee Sandlin|April 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Her monograph on David Galula will be published by the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College this summer.
The Republican Fight Over Afghanistan|Ann Marlowe|July 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST

She recently published a monograph, Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad: Toward an Islam of Grace .
What Hogwarts Can Teach Muslims|Asra Q. Nomani|July 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Network very similar to that of Dictyosoma trigonizon, figured in my Monograph, Taf.
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index|Ernst Haeckel
It is my plan to follow this monograph with a second on the history of Shakespeare in Denmark.
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway|Martin Brown Ruud
For further and more detailed information, reference is made to the monograph of the Chief of Ordnance.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)|Jefferson Davis
From this partisan point of view only then the monograph is very much of a success.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920|Various
This would constitute a very curious fact if the matter were left where Professor Hartt left it when his monograph was written.
Nights With Uncle Remus|Joel Chandler Harris

British Dictionary definitions for monograph

monograph

/ (ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /

noun

a paper, book, or other work concerned with a single subject or aspect of a subject

verb

(tr) to write a monograph on

Derived Formsmonographer (mɒˈnɒɡrəfə) or monographist, nounmonographic, adjectivemonographically, adverb

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