monograph
noun
mono·graph
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Definition of monograph
(Entry 1 of 2)
: a learned treatise on a small area of learning
his concise monograph on The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays— Brian Vickers
also
: a written account of a single thing
wrote a monograph on the art of origami
monograph
verb
monographed;
monographing;
monographs
Definition of monograph (Entry 2 of 2)
: to write a monograph on
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Other Words from monograph
Noun
monographic
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Examples of monograph in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Despite his vast daily intake of beer, Ricketts worked long hours in the lab with great precision, wrote extensively, and devoured scientific monographs and other challenging books. — Smithsonian, "John Steinbeck’s Epic Ocean Voyage Rewrote the Rules of Ecology," 22 Aug. 2019 Coinciding with a terrific new monograph on Bloom and a commercial show in New York, the exhibition feels like a major event. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, "Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers.," 31 July 2019 Historians spend their lives learning more and more about less and less, producing narrow PhDs and turning them into monographs and academic articles, in the hamster-wheel pursuit of tenure and promotion. — The Economist, "The study of history is in decline in Britain," 18 July 2019 The resulting iconography of the euro banknote and the common side of the euro coin, Dr. Oriane Calligaro notes in her monograph Negotiating Europe. — Gail Fletcher, National Geographic, "See what Europe’s coins looked like before the euro," 28 June 2019 Rizzoli published a monograph about his work in 1989. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "Iconoclastic Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, who shaped the city with his buildings and ideas, dies at 88," 4 June 2019 All this is celebrated this month not just in the excerpt from Prager’s film Face in the Crowd, which is playing at One World Trade Center, but in a new book, her first monograph, Silver Lake Drive, published by Chronicle Books. — Chloe Schama, Vogue, "Alex Prager Wants to Make You Look Twice," 22 Oct. 2018 Unlike so many other designer monographs, there’s no shellacking of brand identity here, the bland self-preservation of commercial necessity. — Mark Holgate, Vogue, "Roland Mouret’s New Book About His Life and Work Brings His Past Right Here Into the Present," 6 Nov. 2018 Arsham said about the 2011 project in a monograph Phaidon published this year. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "Play it forward," 18 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'monograph.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for monograph
monograph
noun
mono·graph
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Medical Definition of monograph
1
: a learned detailed treatise covering a small area of a field of learning
this monograph covers the development of intravenous anesthesia from 1872 — Journal of the American Medical Association
2
: a description (as in the United States Pharmacopeia) of the name, chemical formula, and uniform method for determining the strength and purity of a drug
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