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monograph

noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncommon

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To write a monograph on (a subject).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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5

verb

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

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6

noun

Meaning 6

a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: treatise

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: monografi — scholarly book or treatise
  • Bulgarian: монография (monografija) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Catalan: monografia — scholarly book or treatise
  • Chinese Mandarin: 專著 /专著 (zhuānzhù) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Chinese Mandarin: 專論 /专论 (zhuānlùn) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Chinese Mandarin: 專刊 /专刊 (zhuānkān) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Czech: monografie — scholarly book or treatise
  • Finnish: monografi — scholarly book or treatise
  • French: monographie — scholarly book or treatise
  • German: Monografie — scholarly book or treatise
  • Greek: μονογραφία (monografía) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Hungarian: monográfia — scholarly book or treatise
  • Indonesian: monografi — scholarly book or treatise
  • Japanese: モノグラフ (monogurafu) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Kazakh: монография (monografiä) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Korean: 모노그래프 (monogeuraepeu) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Kyrgyz: монография (monografiya) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Lithuanian: monografija — scholarly book or treatise
  • Polish: monografia — scholarly book or treatise
  • Portuguese: monografia — scholarly book or treatise
  • Romanian: monografie — scholarly book or treatise
  • Russian: моногра́фия (monográfija) — scholarly book or treatise
  • Slovak: monografia — scholarly book or treatise
  • Spanish: monografía — scholarly book or treatise
  • Swedish: monografi — scholarly book or treatise
  • Vietnamese: chuyên khảo — scholarly book or treatise
Real reading context

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