monograph

[ mon-uh-graf, -grahf ]
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noun
  1. a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.

  2. 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.

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

verb (used with object)
  1. to write a monograph about.

Origin of monograph

1
First recorded in 1815–25; mono- + -graph

Other words from monograph

  • mo·nog·ra·pher [muh-nog-ruh-fer], /məˈnɒg rə fər/, mo·nog·ra·phist, noun
  • mon·o·graph·ic [mon-uh-graf-ik], /ˌmɒn əˈgræf ɪk/, mon·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
  • mon·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

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How to use monograph in a sentence

  • Denis Piel, famous for his highly sexualized fashion spreads of the 1980s and 1990s, publishes a steamy, new monograph this month.

  • This opinion, however, has been since refuted in an able monograph on the subject by Padre Garrucci.

    The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
  • The monograph on the Sunshade, called by the author ‘a little tumbled fantasy,’ occupies fully one-half of the volume.

  • He thinks, as I did, that the monograph of Sticker in Nothnagel is the best review of hay fever that we have.

    The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick Laidlaw
  • 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
  • It is really a monograph on magnetism written in the thirteenth century.

British Dictionary definitions for monograph

monograph

/ (ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /


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

verb
  1. (tr) to write a monograph on

Derived forms of monograph

  • monographer (mɒˈnɒɡrəfə) or monographist, noun
  • monographic, adjective
  • monographically, adverb

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