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A detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monograph \Mon"o*graph\, n. [Mono- + -graph.] A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"treatise on a single subject," 1821, from mono- + -graph "something written." Earlier was monography (1773).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person. vb. (context transitive English) To write a monograph on (a subject).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB write ▪ Posidonius wrote a monograph about the Oceans. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Furthermore, a monograph of any large tropical group will show varying degrees of recognition of the ecological requirements of different ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject
Usage examples of monograph.
Through innumerable prefaces, postfaces, notes, biographies and monographs, university lectures and dissertations, Kafkology produces and sustains its own image of Kafka, to the point where the author whom readers know by the name Kafka is no longer Kafka but the Kafkologized Kafka.
Campbell, in his celebrated monograph, in a total of 51 operations had only seen recorded the accounts of two children saved, and one of these was too marvelous to believe.
Such monographs were only in later times collected in encyclopaedic works, in which they were inserted in such a manner as to constitute various chapters only, and no longer separate treatises.
It was Fields who had recognized genius in half-finished manuscripts and monographs, Fields who had nurtured friendships with the great New England authors as other publishers closed their doors for lack of profits or spent too much time retailing.
Years after, I remember, I read a monograph on grieving that studied bereaved children and found that many thought their mothers had moved away, gone to a new house, a new life, new children.
His plays, if I may be pardoned for coining a word, need not an omnigraph, but monographs.
Federation had been on the planet, the ethnologists and anthropologists should have published enough monographs to fill a small library!
Museum monographs and chapbooks, perhaps: removed for research, then not returned?
De Quincey, whose acute and in many respects most valuable monograph on the poet touches its point of least trustworthiness in matters of this kind, declares roundly, and on the alleged authority of Coleridge himself, that the very primary and essential prerequisite of happiness was wanting to the union.
After the decades that the Federation had been on the planet, the ethnologists and anthropologists should have published enough monographs to fill a small library!
The drawers were filled with notebooks, folders and monographs on roses.
Harry Whittington, and fellow graduate student Derek Briggs, Conway Morris spent the next several years making a systematic revision of the entire collection, and cranking out one exciting monograph after another as discovery piled upon discovery.
Ernest Jones, whom time would reveal as the most loyal of Freud's lieutenants, had written his classic study of Hamlet and his splendid monograph on The Nightmare.
He would have traded ten thousand costumed autograph hounds for one gilt-edged monograph on “Dungannon’s Use of Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Fantasy.
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