- a paper, book, or other work concerned with a single subject or aspect of a subject
- (transitive) to write a monograph on
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
mon•o•graph /ˈmɑnəˌgræf/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- a learned piece of writing or detailed study, usually on a single topic or subject.
mon•o•graph
(mon′ə graf′, -gräf′),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
mo•nog•ra•pher
(mə nog′rə fər),USA pronunciation mo•nog′ra•phist, n.
mon•o•graph•ic
(mon′ə graf′ik),USA pronunciation mon′o•graph′i•cal, adj.
mon′o•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.
- 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.
v.t.
- to write a monograph about.
- 1815–25; mono- + -graph
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monograph /ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf/ n
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