monograph

CEFRC1

/mˈɑnəˌɡræf/

noun · verb

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01
noun
A detailed written study of one subject.
02
noun
Extra detail
A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication.

Examples

Mary's monograph on crystal structures devoted an entire chapter to X-ray diffraction techniques.
The scholar's monograph on ancient coins detailed the obverse and reverse of each specimen.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself.
A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects; especially, such a document that is written by one person.

Extra meaning

In context

1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24. 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...
1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24. 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.
The complex history of the Wirral Railway and the lines with which it was interlinked needs more lucid treatment than is given in this 39-page monograph - and clearer maps and an index.

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The complex history of the Wirral Railway and the lines with which it was interlinked needs more lucid treatment than is given in this 39-page monograph - and clearer maps and an index.
1961 August, “New reading on railways:The Wirral Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii
It may still be years before we see, what we all look forward to, the great and final book on Knossos. Meanwhile learned monographs on different sections of the subject have been fast accumulating. They form the principal contents of six successive Annuals of the British School at Athens, and a not inconsiderable portion of the six corresponding volumes of The Journal of Hellenic Studies.
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vi
Crooke made a few references to two of his monographs (1896a and 1896b) but did not take quotations from his own works.
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 494
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”, in New York Times

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From mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”).