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:
topic, subject, issue, matter
Meaning: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
Usage examples
She alluded to the topic of age.
The conversation drifted from topic to topic.
He fencing for a topic with which he might gain my affection.
"We will try a less exciting topic," the Professor mildly remarked to the children.
But this topic belongs to the philosophy of physics, and need not concern us in our present inquiry.
"Any exobiologists there?" Lea asked, with a woman's eternal ability to make any general topic personal.
They had at least one topic on which they could converse intelligently with any grown-up person, and in which they were really superior to most.
I read, in every word of his plain impressive way of delivering himself, new evidence of his having thought of this one topic, in every feature it presented.
The desperadoes formed the chief topic of discussion, even Don showed the bloodhound in him, and, ever since leaving Egan, showed unusual excitement and was more vigilant.
There were still further speculations, that related less to the apparition itself than to its connection with the other grand topic of the time--the murder of young Poindexter.