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theme

(/T//i/m )

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion(noun.communication)

Example:
His letters were always on the theme of love.

Synonym:
subject, topic

source: wordnet30
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work(noun.cognition)

Example:
It was the usual `boy gets girl' theme.

Synonym:
motif

source: wordnet30
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition(noun.communication)

Example:
The theme is announced in the first measures.

Synonym:
idea, melodic theme, musical theme

source: wordnet30
an essay (especially one written as an assignment)(noun.communication)

Synonym:
composition, paper, report

source: wordnet30
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed(noun.communication)

Synonym:
base, radical, root, root word, stem

source: wordnet30
A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.(noun)

source: webster1913

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