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theme


 
  Grep  of  noun  theme 
  melodic  theme 
  musical  theme 
  theme 
  theme  park 
  theme  song 
 
  Overview  of  noun  theme 
 
  The  noun  theme  has  5  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (9)  subject,  topic,  theme  --  (the  subject  matter  of  a  conversation  or  discussion;  "he  didn't  want  to  discuss  that  subject";  "it  was  a  very  sensitive  topic";  "his  letters  were  always  on  the  theme  of  love") 
  2.  (5)  theme,  motif  --  (a  unifying  idea  that  is  a  recurrent  element  in  a  literary  or  artistic  work  "it  was  the  usual  `boy  gets  girl'  theme") 
  3.  theme,  melodic  theme,  musical  theme,  idea  --  (melodic  subject  of  a  musical  composition;  "the  theme  is  announced  in  the  first  measures";  "the  accompanist  picked  up  the  idea  and  elaborated  it") 
  4.  composition,  paper,  report,  theme  --  (an  essay  (especially  one  written  as  an  assignment);  "he  got  an  A  on  his  composition") 
  5.  root,  root  word  base,  stem,  theme,  radical  --  ((linguistics)  the  form  of  a  word  after  all  affixes  are  removed;  "thematic  vowels  are  part  of  the  stem") 
 
  Overview  of  noun  theme 
 
  The  noun  theme  has  5  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (9)  subject,  topic,  theme  --  (the  subject  matter  of  a  conversation  or  discussion;  "he  didn't  want  to  discuss  that  subject";  "it  was  a  very  sensitive  topic";  "his  letters  were  always  on  the  theme  of  love") 
  2.  (5)  theme,  motif  --  (a  unifying  idea  that  is  a  recurrent  element  in  a  literary  or  artistic  work  "it  was  the  usual  `boy  gets  girl'  theme") 
  3.  theme,  melodic  theme,  musical  theme,  idea  --  (melodic  subject  of  a  musical  composition;  "the  theme  is  announced  in  the  first  measures";  "the  accompanist  picked  up  the  idea  and  elaborated  it") 
  4.  composition,  paper,  report,  theme  --  (an  essay  (especially  one  written  as  an  assignment);  "he  got  an  A  on  his  composition") 
  5.  root,  root  word  base,  stem,  theme,  radical  --  ((linguistics)  the  form  of  a  word  after  all  affixes  are  removed;  "thematic  vowels  are  part  of  the  stem") 



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