monograph
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”)
Noun [edit]
monograph (plural monographs)
- A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
- I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT. Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.
Translations [edit]
scholarly book or treatise
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Verb [edit]
monograph (third-person singular simple present monographs, present participle monographing, simple past and past participle monographed)
- (transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject).
- 2009 April 26, Charles Isherwood, “A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway”, New York Times:
- It is among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century.
- 2009 April 26, Charles Isherwood, “A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway”, New York Times:
