monograph
Americannoun
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a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
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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.
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an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- monographer noun
- monographic adjective
- monographical adjective
- monographically adverb
- monographist noun
Etymology
Origin of monograph
Example Sentences
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The monograph is currently in production with Cambridge University Press and is expected to be released in 2026 or 2027.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
She finds herself in good company: Soutine’s friend Faure suggested in his 1929 monograph on the artist that his work contained “the spark of God.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
He assigned his student a scholarly monograph, “Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society,” to begin his long education in how leftists think.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025
The authors downplayed the report’s link to the controversial monograph they produced for the National Toxicology Program, Levy wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025
Perhaps Fine’s monograph gave impetus to the press; whenever they did chess stories, reporters would look for a certain amount of aberration among the players.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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