theme

Meaning

Noun

1. A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. A recurring idea; a motif.
3. A recurring idea; a motif.
4. (dated) An essay written for school.
5. The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
6. A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
7. An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
8. The stem of a word.
9. Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
10. Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
11. Topic, what is generally being talked about.
12. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Verb

1. (transitive) To give a theme to.
2. (transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

Synonyms

topic

subject

motif

text

idea

💡

subject matter

main idea

composition

matter

melody

thesis

report

root

stem

object

heading

paper

point

root word

musical theme

base

melodic theme

radical

content

keynote

essay

article

lemma

teaching

task

clause

substance

message

subject-matter

statement

motive

gist

essence

suggestion

theorem

thought

💭

title

trace

trunk

tune

tunefulness

write down

depicted object

subject area

melodic subject

Translations

thème

tema

Thema

tema

tema

sujet

θέμα

onderwerp

thema

tema

موضوع

stof

soggetto

apropos

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θiːm/

Etymology

Cognate with French: thème

Cognate with English: do

In summary

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Sentences

It was arranged by theme .

Most of the songs have a common apocalyptic theme .

The contruction of a new theme park is immediately halted for an unknown reason .

Each new campaign incorporating the theme retained the same animated sequence .