monograph

English

Etymology

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

Noun

monograph (plural monographs)

1. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vi:

     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.

   • 1961 August, “New reading on railways:The Wirral Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii:

     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.

   • 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.

   • 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:

     Crooke made a few references to two of his monographs (1896a and 1896b) but did not take quotations from his own works.

Translations

scholarly book or treatise

• Bulgarian: монография (bg) f (monografija)
• Catalan: monografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專著／专著 (zh) (zhuānzhù), 專論／专论 (zh) (zhuānlùn), 專刊／专刊 (zh) (zhuānkān)

• Czech: monografie (cs) f
• Finnish: monografi
• French: monographie (fr) f
• German: Monografie (de) f
• Greek: μονογραφία (el) f (monografía)
• Hungarian: monográfia (hu)
• Japanese: モノグラフ (ja) (monogurafu)
• Kazakh: монография (monografiä)
• Korean: 모노그래프 (monogeuraepeu)
• Kyrgyz: монография (monografiya)
• Lithuanian: monografija (lt) f
• Polish: monografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: monografia (pt) f
• Romanian: monografie (ro) f
• Russian: моногра́фия (ru) f (monográfija)
• Spanish: monografía (es) f
• Swedish: monografi (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chuyên khảo (vi)

Verb

monograph (third-person singular simple present monographs, present participle monographing, simple past and past participle monographed)

1. (transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject).
   • 2009 April 26, Charles Isherwood, “A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance).

Anagrams

• nomograph, phonogram