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monograph

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mon·o·graph

[mon-uh-graf, -grahf]
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.
3.
an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.
verb (used with object)
4.
to write a monograph about.

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marriage with only one person at a time
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Origin:
1815–25; mono- + -graph

mo·nog·ra·pher [muh-nog-ruh-fer] , mo·nog·ra·phist, noun
mon·o·graph·ic [mon-uh-graf-ik] , mon·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
mon·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

monogram, monograph.
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Example Sentences
  • The photographer promises to be a young star in the making with a recently released monograph and a second solo show.
  • Nothing makes an author and the author's publisher unhappy more easily than big dreams for a small monograph.
  • He even published a monograph on the behavior of his infant children.
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monograph (ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf)
 
n
1.  a paper, book, or other work concerned with a single subject or aspect of a subject
 
vb
2.  (tr) to write a monograph on
 
monographer
 
n
 
mo'nographist
 
n
 
mono'graphic
 
adj
 
mono'graphically
 
adv

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monograph
1821, "treatise on a single subject," from mono- + graph "something written."
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