'Theme' definitions:
Definition of 'theme'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: subject, topic, theme]
noun
A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" [syn: theme, motif]
noun
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea]
noun
An essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" [syn: composition, paper, report, theme]
noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
verb
Provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
Definition of 'Theme'
From: GCIDE
- Theme \Theme\, n. [OE. teme, OF. teme, F. th[`e]me, L. thema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to set, place. See Do, and cf. Thesis.]
- 1. A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. [1913 Webster]
- My theme is alway one and ever was. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Discourse on a certain subject. [1913 Webster]
- Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- It was the subject of my theme. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A composition or essay required of a pupil. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Gram.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'theme'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidence,
- action,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- article,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- background detail,
- basis,
- bound morpheme,
- burden,
- case,
- catastrophe,
- causerie,
- chapter,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- composition,
- concept,
- concern,
- conjugation,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- core,
- cutting,
- declension,
- decorative composition,
- decorative style,
- denouement,
- derivation,
- descant,
- design,
- detail,
- development,
- device,
- difference of form,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- enclitic,
- episode,
- essay,
- essence,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- exposition,
- fable,
- falling action,
- feature,
- figure,
- first approach,
- focus of attention,
- focus of interest,
- foil,
- foreground detail,
- form,
- formative,
- free form,
- gimmick,
- gist,
- head,
- heading,
- homily,
- IC analysis,
- idea,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- incident,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- introductory study,
- issue,
- keynote,
- leitmotiv,
- line,
- living issue,
- local color,
- lucubration,
- main point,
- matter,
- matter in hand,
- meat,
- memoir,
- monograph,
- mood,
- morceau,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- motif,
- motive,
- movement,
- mythos,
- national style,
- note,
- notion,
- ornamental motif,
- outline,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paradigm,
- paragraph,
- pattern,
- period style,
- peripeteia,
- phrase,
- piece,
- plan,
- plot,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- preliminary study,
- problem,
- proclitic,
- prolegomenon,
- question,
- radical,
- recognition,
- repeated figure,
- research paper,
- review,
- rising action,
- root,
- rubric,
- scheme,
- screed,
- secondary plot,
- setting,
- sketch,
- slant,
- special article,
- stem,
- story,
- structure,
- study,
- style,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- subplot,
- substance,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- survey,
- switch,
- term paper,
- text,
- thematic development,
- thesis,
- thread,
- tone,
- topic,
- touch,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- twist,
- word-formation