monograph

[mon-uh-graf, -grahf]

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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.

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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Related Words for monograph

essay, dissertation, treatise, thesis, discourse, tract

Examples from the Web for monograph

Contemporary Examples of 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
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
Franklin circulated the monograph among his friends and correspondents.
Benjamin Franklin, America’s First Storm Chaser
Lee Sandlin
April 14, 2013
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
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

Historical Examples of monograph

Stemonitis dictyospora of Rostafinski's monograph, with spores 12 mic.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio
A. P. Morgan
It is Craterium cylindricum of Massee's monograph, according to Lister.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio
A. P. Morgan
Sherlock Holmes would certainly have considered it worthy of a monograph.
The Book-Hunter at Home
P. B. M. Allan
It is really a monograph on magnetism written in the thirteenth century.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
James J. Walsh
Perhaps some one of my young readers may become the author of that monograph?
Bruin
Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for monograph

monograph

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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Word Origin and History for monograph

"treatise on a single subject," 1821, from mono- + -graph "something written." Earlier was monography (1773).