MONOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monograph mean? 

• MONOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun MONOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject

  Familiarity information: MONOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("monograph" is a kind of...):

treatise (a formal exposition)

 Context examples 

I think of writing another little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its relation to crime.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In last year’s Anthropological Journal you will find two short monographs from my pen upon the subject.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember that during the whole of that memorable day he lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"This is an excellent monograph by my gifted friend, Ray Lankester!" said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have here in front of me these singular productions, at which one might smile, had they not proved themselves to be the forerunners of so terrible a tragedy. I am fairly familiar with all forms of secret writings, and am myself the author of a trifling monograph upon the subject, in which I analyze one hundred and sixty separate ciphers, but I confess that this is entirely new to me. The object of those who invented the system has apparently been to conceal that these characters convey a message, and to give the idea that they are the mere random sketches of children.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was preparing a map of the Holy Land, with special reference to the kingdom of the Midianites, upon which he was writing a monograph.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Are you not the author of a monograph upon obscure nervous lesions?” I asked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After I had graduated I continued to devote myself to research, occupying a minor position in King’s College Hospital, and I was fortunate enough to excite considerable interest by my research into the pathology of catalepsy, and finally to win the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal by the monograph on nervous lesions to which your friend has just alluded.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)