Synonyms:
subject, topic, theme
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
theme, motif
Meaning: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
theme
Meaning: provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
Usage examples
Nor were there wanting poets to celebrate the theme.
At the same time he is a theme that they were bound to treat.
She was still harping on the theme of death coming to the farm.
Its second theme in E flat is lovely in line, color and sentiment.
The Female equally with the Male, I sing. Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self.
There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme.
Then followed a passage a tempo, in which the principal theme played hide and seek.
A little thread connects this with the chorale-like introduction of the second theme.
Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest--namely, One's-Self-- a simple, separate person.
The first questioning theme is heard again, and with a perpendicular roar the presto comes upon us.