Other forms: monographs
A monograph is a detailed written study of one subject. Publish a monograph, a scholarly monograph, the standard monograph.
It is the long form of academic writing, where a paper is short and a monograph is a book on a single narrow question. In the humanities it is still the measure of a career. Note that the word is Greek for single writing, from monos, alone, plus graphein, to write.
1nounmonographA detailed written study of one subject.
“The professor spent ten years writing a monograph on medieval bridges.”
monograph is a scholarly book.
Mono- plus -graph, from Greek monos, alone, plus graphein, to write. Monotone and graph come from the same parts.
From mono + graph.
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