monograph
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.
to write a monograph about.
Origin of monograph
1Other 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
Words that may be confused with monograph
- monogram, monograph
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British Dictionary definitions for monograph
/ (ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /
a paper, book, or other work concerned with a single subject or aspect of a subject
(tr) to write a monograph on
Derived forms of monograph
- monographer (mɒˈnɒɡrəfə) or monographist, noun
- monographic, adjective
- monographically, adverb
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